[mythtv-users] What are my realistic expections with pvr250 and P3 600Mhz?

[daryl faulds]

--- Kelly <cayenne at cayennecomputing.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been researching and reading threads
> here...thought the one on Myth 
> pausing and skipping related to me...but, I think my
> sound is correct....
> 
> When watching live tv, I get this skipping and
> pausing of video and 
> audio...this is at 480x480.
> 
> I can get to near skip free at 320x480....but,
> occasionally the picture 
> 'tears'....
> 
> I've got a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x
> P3 600 Mhz Pentium
> Haupauge PVR 250
> Audigy2 sound card
> 256 M RAM
> 
> Gentoo Linux, 2.6.5 kernel with KDE 3.2
> 
> I'm currently just running to my Viewsonic monitor,
> not to the tv yet. 
> 
> I guess, with this low end of a box...what can I
> realistically expect? I 
> thought from my early readings, that with the PVR
> hardware compression...I 
> could get 480x480....but, this just doesn't seem to
> work on my box. 

I routinely use essentially the same hardware as you
describe. Even, with higher screen resolutions I do
not get the issues you do. Here's the list for a
machine I am looking at right now:

GeForce4 MX 440 AGP
P3 600 Mhz Pentium
Haupauge PVR 250
Sound Blaster Live sound card (same driver as Audigy)
256 M RAM

Just as a guess would you please open a terminal and
run the following command at the command prompt.

glxgears --info

Check your output against my example below for your
hardware. You stop the run by clicking the [X] on the
spinning gears.

6106 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1221.200 FPS
6104 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1220.800 FPS
6103 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1220.600 FPS
6108 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1221.600 FPS
6107 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1221.400 FPS

What do you get? How stable is the FPS measure?


		
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