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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I finally got my m179 working, after a fashion, but
I've run into another snag. It seems that it has the same problem that my
WinTV card had, where the system simply isn't fast enough to decode it.
The problem with this is, the system SHOULD be fast enough...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shouldn't it? </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>It's an AthlonXP 1800+ with 512 MB of ram. Both hard drives in the
system have DMA enabled. According to the MythTV documentation, CPU
utilization for just watching TV (no timeshifting) should be around 10 or 15
percent. According to top, mythfrontend's CPU
utilization</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> typically hovers around
90%. At any rate, i</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>t's almost unwatchable
like this (certainly not enjoyably watchable).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not totally convinced I got ivtv set up
correctly, as it sometimes doesn't work when the system boots up, and I have to
manually load the module. Once it loads though, the TV card seems to work
just fine. The problem arises when I try to view the playback, like Myth's
software Mpeg decoding is woefully inefficient. I've played around with
the recording profiles, but nothing short of turning the image size WAY down
seems to have much effect at all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bottom line, here: Is there a way to speed it
up without making the playback unwatchable?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aaron</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>