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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hello everyone,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I've been running quite successfully the whole "mythtv suite", but there is one thing I never could figure out, so I finally decided to subscribe to the list and ask this community.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">It concerns Mythmusic. I'm running everything on a celeron 2.3ghz, 768mb ram gentoo box, and I use the ebuild releases exclusively. In mythmusic, the visualisations work, however, they "stutter", i.e, one second they are smooth, the other they come to a crawl. And while this happens, X takes around 70% of the cpu time. I initially thought it was an opengl issue, but a simple glxgears test showed that is was not (920 fps for a radeon 7500) So I started to look elsewhere. I discovered that when I hit pause, the visualizations DO run smoothly (I use "gears" because it is the easiest to check upon) but as soon as I resume the playback, same things happen and cpu load rises again.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I remotely ran Mythtv/Mythmusic through X11 on my macintosh and the display is smooth indeed, thus telling me even more that the problem comes from the mp3 decoding.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">So since I have mp3 files exclusively, I think the problem comes from MAD. I tried recompiling libmad with the speed flag, switched back to using MAD, compiled both with --march=pentiumpro, but no progress.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">So I turn out to you. I stumbled across this thread in the archive </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=61917;search_string=MYTHMUSIC%20HOG;guest=1492917&t=search_engine#61917"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=61917;search_string=MYTHMUSIC%20HOG;guest=1492917&t=search_engine#61917</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">but I'm still struggling to find the solution.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Any insight/comments/help is much appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Cheers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Christopher</FONT>
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