[mythtv-users] xorg high cpu usage

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 19:35:03 freedenizen wrote:
> Just to follow up, I moved to a PCIe-16x nvidia card and this is now
> working, but there is still something wrong.  Watching HD video (just
> using xv, too many artifacts when using vdpau) X is still using an
> entire core.  mythfrontend is using about 30-40% which is to be
> expected, but I have no idea what X is doing.  Maybe I have something
> misconfigured in myth?  I'm really not sure where to look any more, as
> far as I remember from my other systems X never used much cpu at all
> when watching video.

Are you using "UseEvents" "true" ??

Of course there are dozens of other things that can cause this.

I'm not happy to hear of the problems with VDPAU though, as I should have a 
9300 card tomorrow. 

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