[mythtv-users] [solved] HDTV performance in 0.18

[David Wood]

My particular problem was (apparently) that AGP was actually disabled. 
Without checking /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status there was nothing else to 
indicate this; X diligently did its thing and didn't log a single warning 
or error related to AGP, regardless of the NvAGP setting. I spent some 
time troubleshooting my module settings, but now the AGP-related modules 
are being loaded properly on boot again.

I can now render HD without using XvMC, with about 5-10% idle. This has 
(so far) been more stable.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. Only minor open questions 
remain...

I still don't know what you should put on the "./configure" line to 
compile optimally for athlon-xp. The manual is ambiguous/out-of-date.

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Brandon Beattie wrote:

> MythTV is often compiled with no support for MMX or anything more than
> pentium pro optimization.  If you didn't enable processor specific
> optimization and mmx, and opengl when doing a ./configure then this
> could have the bad effect.  I haven't noticed much if any CPU change
> between .17 and .18 (Granted I run out of CVS) so I'd check that first.
>
> --Brandon
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:58:31PM -0400, David Wood wrote:
>> Does anyone find it strange to not have enough horsepower to render HDTV
>> in 0.18 on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB of RAM? (Caveat: this is rendering
>> to 800x600 24-bit S-Video on an fx5200.) XV and OpenGL work, renderaccel
>> is true, AGP functional, and by the way, xine can play HDTV with Xv no
>> problem.
>>
>> I'm using libmpeg2 and suid/realtime, and the system can just _barely_
>> handle it without deinterlacing. It's pegged at 95% CPU, and still drops
>> occasional frames. If I turn on deinterlacing, then it's real bad,
>> dropping frames every few seconds.
>>
>> As before, toggling libmpeg, realtime, and opengl appear to have zero
>> effect on performance, despite log output from the frontend suggesting
>> they're working.
>>
>> I keep finding references to people who are doing HDTV with 2100's and
>> 2400's and so forth. I wonder what the difference is - rendering to a
>> different screen resolution or color depth perhaps?
>>
>> Saving grace is that in 0.18 XvMC finally works, almost. I still get ugly
>> flicker and stutter from the OSD, and so far am averaging about 1
>> hard-lock (reboot required) per day... A major improvement.
>>
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