[mythtv-users] Pre-buffering pauses on Toshiba 4300 laptop

[Chris Rouch]

On 4/25/05, Shawn Flynn <shawn at shawnflynn.com> wrote:
>  
> I am currently trying to setup an old laptop as a frontend only box for my
> MythTV system (details below). Everything is installed and running ok,
> except that I get pre-buffering pauses when I try to playback any of my
> recordings. Looking at 'top' it appears that the cpu is being pegged at 100%
> during video playback (65% mythfrontend, 35% X). This laptop _should_ be
> fast enough to playback the videos as I can play them back on another
> frontend with a slower processor. Can anyone offer some suggestions as to
> where to look to improve performance for this machine? 
>   
> Toshiba Sattelite 4300 Pro, P3-600, 192MB RAM, S3 Savage/IX 

My compaq M700 (P3-700MHZ, 256MB) shows the same symptoms.
Additionally if I use mplayer with '-zoom -fullscreen' sound and
vision quickly go out of sync, and it complains that my system is too
slow. My guess is that laptops as slow as mine (and yours) really are
too slow for this kind of task.

Regards,

Chris