[mythtv-users] More on Short report on Xorg 6.9.0

Dag Nygren dag at newtech.fi
Sun Jan 15 13:59:47 UTC 2006


> - The CPU usage for LiveTV went from about 40% to 80%.
>   This puzzles me as I thought that XV working would bring
>   that usage down, not up???

Did some more testing on this and sure enough:
Disabling XV made the CPU peak at 100% without really
doing a good job; Stuttering in both Audio and Video.

In other words it seems like 6.9.0 needs about twice as much
CPU cycles to do the same jobs. Not good.

My CPU is an Athlon 2000+.

Dag



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