[mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[belcampo]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite
> well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4
> 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my
> CPU.
> Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and the
> video kind of glitches.  Anybody ever experience something like this?  I
> have tried changing most of the settings in the setup and didn't see any
> improvement.  I was thinking about trying another kernel or video card, but
> the video card doesn't seem to be the problem.
> Notable differences in systems:
>
> AMD XP2100 proc
> Nvidia FX5200
> Fedora Core 3
> 2.6.10 kernel
> Hauppauge PVR250
>
> P4 3.2Ghz proc
> ATI X300
> Fedora Core 4
> 2.6.14-SMP kernel
> Hauppauge PVR250
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer!
> A
If your Nvidia had Nvidia's drivers it would have had hard-decode support, if 
your ATI card uses the xorg drivers it doesn't have that. I can run 800x600 
on a 300MHz machine with the right Nvidia drivers, it fails to play 480x480 
with the xorg drivers.