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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi there,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been using mythtv for about 2 months.
It worked ok, but the performance was not great, this evening I finally tracked
down the root cause, so I thought I would post to the list in case anyone else
had the same problem. Basically when nxtvepg and mythtv were running at the same
time, the idle cpu was 0% and any spare cpu was used by the system process (as
shown in top), up to 80% system! Stopping nxtvepg seems to have solved the
problem. I have done ABA checks, and I am sure it is nxtvepg with myth
together.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>nxtvepg is really useful here in Germany though, so
I will keep experimenting to see if I can get it to behave. I think some people
have managed it. At least I know where to look now. I think others have had
this problem also, but I did not see a message on the list with the symptoms so
explicitly stated. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can now watch live TV, MP4 (standard settings
video, slightly better audio) on my AthlonXP 1600+ at 576x576 with 20% idle CPU,
impossible before.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this helps someone,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Simon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS Just for everyone's amusement here are the other
things I tried:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 3 different motherboards (latest
purchased this evening...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> CPU upgrade</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> RAM upgrade</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> kernel upgrade (2.6.x to
2.6.9)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> distro change, Suse 9.1 to
KnoppMyth</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> IDE to SCSI hard
disc</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> recording to
ramdisk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> different
filesystems</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> overclocking</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> underclocking</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> almost every option in the
bios</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> pci card in every different slot
etc etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good job the wife has been away for a couple of
weeks...</FONT></DIV>
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