[mythtv-users] mythfrontend under KVM

[Darac Marjal]

On 03/05/2021 12:39, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> For a while I avoided using mythfrontend under kvm as it was mostly
> useless for me.
> Today I tried again and it works better, but playback, while
> watchable, is not smooth at all.
>
> On the VM, watching FHD, when paused it consumes 75% of a cpu, when
> playing 100%.
> Watching HD (720p) it uses 65% playing or paused.
>
> The host and VM are f32 (soon to be f34).
> The host is an 8 core "i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz" with Intel GPU on board
> and no second GPU.

1. What display method are you using between the client and the VM? VNC
is a relatively "dumb" protocol and can be quite bandwidth heavy for
full-screen video, where many pixels change each frame. Consider,
instead, using SPICE which allows for some considerable acceleration, as
well as forwarding of sound from the VM to the client.

2. Is the Intel GPU new enough to support GVT? GVT allows certain Intel
and NVIDIA cards to offer a "virtual card" to VMs. The virtual card can
be used by the host for OpenGL and VAAPI acceleration. While you still
hit the problem of how to get the image from the VM to the screen, being
able to offload MPEG decoding from the virtual CPU to the virtual GPU
might also help you.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g gives a nice overview of
the process for getting GVT to work.


>
> What KVM/MythTV settings should I use for optimal performance?
>
> TIA
>

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