[mythtv-users] EPIA M10K + DVD Play CPU Usage

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Mar 11 09:55:24 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 10:23 +0100, Herman Kuiper wrote:
> > 	Just wondering what sort of CPU usage you're seeing when playing a DVD
> > file (from a DVD CD).
> >
> > For some reason, I'm getting like 70-80% CPU usage.
> 
> I think it's somewhere between 10 and 20%.
> 
> > xine has xvmc compiled and an plays with xine -V xxmc
> 
> When you run it with -v (I think) it should state explicitly somewhere that 
> it is using hardware decoding.

That what I've been hearing. I've got to play closer attention to it
now. --verbose=9 should do it.


>  I tried getting XvMC to run using some .mpg 
> file I had laying around, and it took me a while to discover hardware 
> decoding does not work on all video files given to Xine.

But it should work on DVD right? I've been pointed out that Divx doesn't
work.

>  I think if you run 
> Xine without any files and -v -V xmmc it should give you the message you 
> should be looking for.

Thanks.


> Also, make sure all modules are actually loaded, check the Xorg logs that 
> the module is not disabled somewhere.
> 
> 	Herman
> 
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