[mythtv-users] Time for new hardware. CPU HIGH loads

[Michael D. O'Brien]

Please apt-get upgrade your Ubuntu/Mythbuntu MythTV packages.  Mario fixed
an compile optimization issue and now performance should be back to normal
or even improved a bit.  Trunk "weekly build" was updated yesterday.


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net> wrote:

> Bruce Taber wrote:
> > Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> >
> >> Eric Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:14 AM, daniel åkerud
> >>> <daniel.akerud at gmail.com <mailto:daniel.akerud at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     I use Mythbuntu weekly builds and have noticed this as well. I
> >>>     used Yadif 2x before and there was no problem at all. Now I can't
> >>>     even use it on SD-content. Something tells me this has nothing to
> >>>     do with any optimizations you try to turn on.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I updated to trunk on Sunday and noticed similar issues.  I have a
> >>> guess that the performance issue is due to the recently added audio
> >>> upmix code.  The default settings for it seem to require quite a bit
> >>> of CPU time.  Changing the upmix setting to passive brought my cpu
> >>> load back down to reasonable (although maybe still slightly higher)
> >>> levels.  There is currently an open ticket to change the default
> >>> setting to passive, perhaps for this reason?
> >>>
> >>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4775
> >>>
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> >> Could this be the cause of the "dropped audio" and choppy audio/video
> >> that I and others have seen in SVN for the last month?
> >> Thoughts?  Has anyone else had to change this to passive to fix things?
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> > Is this possibly related to x86_64 in any way? I've been having a
> > difficult time on 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 x86_64 getting the settings to make
> > the audio work correctly. The system "seems" to be setup as most of the
> > other applications such as xmms, rhythmbox, mplayer, and xine all
> > function properly. I just can't seem to make mythtv control the audio at
> > the moment.
> >
> > I also had the audio drop outs and overruns with one of the compiles in
> > my effort to figure out the problems.
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> Perhaps.  I was running SVN and Fedora 8 X64.  May audio/video related
> drops and high load.  So much that I had to go back to the old stable
> rpm version. ( which works perfectly BTW )
> Something is wrong in the SVN with Internal player and sound/video high
> load. Just my opinion.  Supported by many reports of issues here in the
> forum.
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