[mythtv-users] Compile options for Atom/ION?

[Tom Lichti]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Chris Stevens <chris at mindblow.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have an Acer Revo using the Atom with ION graphics and have installed
>> Mandriva 2009.1 Powerpack which comes with the nVidia driver
>> (dkms-nvidia-current-185.18.36-3mdv2009.1).
>>
>> I compiled Mythtv 0.21-fixes with:
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-proc-opt --enable-opengl-vsync
>> --enable-opengl-video --enable-xvmc-opengl
>>
>> and everything is fine. You don't need Atom-specific compilation but you
>> do want the nVidia proprietary driver and OpenGL. Don't forget to enable
>> the OpenGL in mythfrontend.
>>
>> Chris
>
> I have all the opengl support compiled in, and I'm using nVidia
> 185.18.36 and VDPAU.  There's no performance problem during playback,
> but when I exit a recording, it may take around 10 seconds to return
> to the recordings page, during which "top" reports mythfrontend using
> ~100% CPU.  So I was wondering if anyone, especially the gentoo folks,
> could recommend Atom-specific options that shorten these delays.  I
> can try --enable-proc-opt, but I was hoping that someone could report
> their experience on this kind of tuning.
>
> I think I'm using the Qt painter.  I'll try switching it to OpenGL and
> see if that makes a difference.

I see the same thing with the OpenGL painter, but it's more like 30
seconds...WAF is affected...