[mythtv-users] Cannot max out CPU usage on HLS transcode

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Wed Oct 17 04:45:56 UTC 2012


* On Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 11:36:42AM -0400, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> The HLS transcoding is done by mythtranscode. Since mythtranscode also
> is a user job app, it could be that it's obeying the CPU load limit
> setting in user job configuration screen of mythtv-setup. I seem to
> recall 30% being the limit for the Low setting.

The CPU load limitations for mythtranscode are applied by the JobQueue
directly, not from within mythtranscode itself.  If you run mythtranscode
from the command line, or it is run for a HLS encode, it runs at full
speed.

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Chris


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