[mythtv-users] VDPAU profile correct? High X server load

Mark markhsa at shaw.ca
Fri Jan 9 00:38:20 UTC 2009


Tom Lichti wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mark <markhsa at shaw.ca> wrote:
>   
>>> Just make the profile only have one line that says if res is > 0 0 used vdpau.
>>>
>>> make sure the drivers are loaded with cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Drivers are confirmed.  I will try the profile change.  Thanks.
>>     
>
> I have a similar issue. I am using 180.22 driver (confirmed), with
> trunk build 19602 and VDPAU enabled, and while playing an HD recording
> I see this in top:
>
> Cpu0  : 22.3%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 74.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.7%hi,  2.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  1.9%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   2074688k total,  1074756k used,   999932k free,    57924k buffers
> Swap:  2047744k total,       52k used,  2047692k free,   648656k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 10537 mythtv    20   0  372m 180m  58m S   75  8.9   1:24.61 mythfrontend
>  6104 root      20   0  436m  35m  10m S    4  1.8   1:15.28 X
>
> Any idea why mfe/X combined seem to be using 79% CPU, but the two
> cores are mostly idle (using about 25% total)? The picture quality is
> fantastic, much better than any other playback method I have used, so
> in that regard I'm happy, and I don't even really care if the CPU is
> higher than what it should be, it works!
>
> Tom
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>   

I am getting occasional black screen and just sound on the frontend.
Anyone seen this with VDPAU?




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