[mythtv-users] recommendation for new combined frontend+backend?
Frank Hartmann
soundart at gmx.net
Sun Nov 6 18:34:53 UTC 2011
Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> writes:
> On 11/5/2011 13:20, Frank Hartmann wrote:
>> Playback of 720p50 recorded from ARD is 167% load (based on top,
>> probably max=200%) using vlc.
>
> Using more than one processor on progressive content means it's H264,
> and multi-sliced. That load on an Athlon II would put the bitrate
> somewhere around 12-13Mbps. You can probably expect to make it up to
> around 15Mbps, or half that for single-sliced content, before you start
> suffering playback problems.
Hi Raymond, I did neglect this. I sampled some more streams from ARD,
ZDF and Arte and the playback is dropping parts of frames sometimes.
CPU load is then around 180%. Uh oh
I hope this GPU acceleration will help me, otherwise I will need a
seperate frontend.
kind regards
Frank
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