[mythtv-users] HD Recordings on Regular TV

Robert Macaulay robert.macaulay at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 03:02:15 UTC 2007


On 4/26/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can watch HD programming *almost* just fine on a SDTV from my
> Mythbox powered by a XP2500+ and an nVidia 5200 AGP card.  YMMV.
> _______________________________________________

How do you manage? I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, 512Meg
ram, 512 KB cache, GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP, FC6, Svideo out, and Xorg set
to "1024x768"

I get max CPU usage on playback. 70+% for mythfrontend, and the rest
to Xorg. It plays, but pulses.

I'm not sure why Xorg is consuming so much. I tried XvMC, but the
sound stuttering on OSD was a killer, and it seemed to lock up more
with that enabled. Is it the resolution? lower numbers seemed to
flicker worse.


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