[mythtv-users] More XvMC data points
Tom Lichti
tom at redpepperracing.com
Mon Dec 4 16:35:13 UTC 2006
Michael Tiller wrote:
> On 11/29/06, *Michael Tiller* <michael.tiller at gmail.com
> <mailto:michael.tiller at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity...when you say 65-75% CPU utilization, how is
> that partitioned between the X server and the frontend? I ask
> because if I try and watch without XvMC on my system, the X server
> is something like 30% and the frontend is like 70%. I'm wondering
> if this load on the X server can be avoided somehow. Then I might
> have a chance to watch HD natively.
>
>
> I just wanted to circle back on this issue of X server utilization. I
> installed a 2.4GHz P4 in my machine to replace the Celeron that was
> there. Now when I attempt non-XvMC playback, I get something like 47%
> CPU for the frontend and 50% CPU for the X server.
>
> From all the data I have seen, this seems like extremely high
> utilization of the X server. I just have this sense that perhaps there
> is something poorly configured here that it requires so much CPU from
> the X server. I know the XvMC gives you access to the motion
> compensation framework but am I perhaps missing something more
> fundamental like some acceleration that would allow direct writes to the
> framebuffer or something?!?
>
> --
> Mike
I was doing some playing around with my main frontend last night, and
playing an HD signal without XvMC enabled, I had (on a dual core P4) 99%
usage on core one (MFE) and 56% usage on core two (X). With XvMC
enabled, I had about 45% CPU combined, so XvMC *is* working for me on my
main system. This was with current SVN as of last night, and the latest
nVidia beta drivers (9742). I had no stuttering, no prebuffer pauses, or
any other issues, aside from what *seems* like frame skipping, but I see
nothing in the logs to indicate that, so I'm not sure if it's real or not.
My backup frontend I have not tried yet.
Tom
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