[mythtv-users] HDTV memory usage?

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/4/07, Alex Halovanic <halovanic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in nearly the same boat as you, 6150, 512 mb RAM, 64 mb allocated
> to video, 1920x1080 res.  I'm running the latest svn version and have
> a Debian 32-bit system installed.  I do have about 700 mb swap
> installed so I seem to be able to get further than you, I have livetv
> working, and the menus work, but only if I stay away from some of the
> more memory-intensive themes.  Also, I have to use OpenGL to render
> the menus otherwise QT causes the system to cough up all the memory
> and die when i try to go into the "media settings" in the setup pages.
>  OpenGL is slow to render the fading effects though as I don't think
> the onboard video's really up for the task of 3d acceleration at that
> res.  It's very odd.  I would think that with the amount of swap I
> should be able to not run into any out of memory messages, and just
> have a glacially slow system, so it seems that at 1080i it's leaking
> memory in a way that it wasn't at 720p.

my frontend at 1080p I use about 1GB of RAM with the bluetoob theme.
I'd suggest setting up a swap file if you don't already have one.

-- 
Steve
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