[mythtv-users] Performance problem

[Raphael Pooser]

Jonas Björklund wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Raphael Pooser wrote:
>
>   
>>>>> I have a RS482-IL motherbord and a AMD Turion MT-34.
>>>>> The motherbord has a ATI Radeon Xpress 200 built in.
>>>>> I have Hauppauge bt848. Samsung Spinpoint 250GB harddisk.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have only tried live TV and get performance problem. Every 2 seconds I
>>>>> get a lag on the picture. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Is my system to slow? CPU? Capture card? Harddisk?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I would put the problem at none of the above, and move it on to your
>>>> graphics card.
>>>> At least when I first installed the drivers for my ATI card, it wasn't
>>>> even using XV, causing it to eat up 60% of the processor just to watch a
>>>> 640x480 stream, and with a software encoder taking about 40% to capture
>>>> it, I was getting pauses exactly like the ones you're getting.  After
>>>> making sure I had XV working, I got around 5% to watch a stream by
>>>> itself, and closer to 50% to watch something live or watch and record at
>>>> the same time.
>>>> So I would give your graphics card driver a look.  Are you using fglrx?
>>>> If so, make sure your vendor string for OGL reads ATI and not mesa, or
>>>> XV won't be working either.
>>>> I've heard that XV works perfectly when using "ati" in X, but I don't
>>>> think "ati" supports the xpress 200, not 100% sure.
>>>> Also, "ati" won't let you use TV out.
>>>> Raphael
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I have not bought a Nvidia FX 5200 PCI and have the same problem. :-(
>>>
>>>       
>> You mean you _have_ bought a 5200 right?  Judging from the xorg conf and
>> log you posted it looks like you are using a 5200 and are getting the
>> problem described by the OP.  My knowledge of the "nvidia" driver in X
>> is very limited unfortunately, as I just installed it and it worked
>> flawlessly.  However, I installed from a debian package, not the nvidia
>> installer binary.  Maybe you'll have more luck if you just try
>> installing from your distro's repository.  Unofotunately until I do more
>> tests with "nvidia" myself my knowledge may be too limited to help.
>> Raphael
>>     
>
> I HAVE bought a 5200. :-)
> I have installed the driver from my distro (Gentoo). Whats "OP"?
>
>   

Heh, sorry, "OP" means "original post" or "original poster", just 
referring to the first post of the thread, and the guy who made the 
first post is the orginal poster.
We need to get a gentoo user on here to give his opinion, as I'm not at 
all experienced with gentoo - I have more debian knowledge and some 
rpm-using-OS's here and there.