[mythtv-users] Sluggish Video

[Kevin Ross]

On 11/30/2010 08:20 AM, mike at grounded.net wrote:
>>   What playback profile are you using?  What video renderer are you
>>   using?  (Xv-blit, OpenGL, xlib, xshm)
> I'll have to do some research to find out how I can reply to the above.
>
> As of this morning though, it seems to be better though I'm still having the slow motion problem.
>
> top - 10:11:36 up 16:05,  3 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.17, 0.18
> Tasks: 242 total,   1 running, 241 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  4.7%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 79.4%id, 14.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  5.8%us,  1.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 91.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu2  :  5.5%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 90.9%id,  1.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  3.3%us,  1.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 93.8%id,  1.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   2061720k total,  1501692k used,   560028k free,   113924k buffers
> Swap:  2097144k total,    32224k used,  2064920k free,   998428k cached
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   7779 mythtv    20   0  545m  89m  46m S 17.2  4.4   0:15.56 mythfrontend
>   1786 mythtv     9 -11  163m 5120 4240 S  3.6  0.2   8:09.62 pulseaudio
>   1607 root      20   0 70536  38m  21m S  3.0  1.9 170:09.90 Xorg
>   7561 root      20   0  353m  31m 9032 S  1.7  1.5   0:12.95 mythbackend
>   7832 root      20   0  2584 1184  856 R  0.7  0.1   0:00.11 top
>   1334 root      20   0  3880  392  324 S  0.3  0.0   3:58.99 lircd
>      1 root      20   0  2048  552  488 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.26 init

I saw in another reply you're using the CPU+ profile.  Maybe try 
changing that to Slim?