I've been running Myth for about 4-5 months on Ubuntu Dapper and an ASUS P1AH1 (nvidia 6150) Athlon64 3200 and 1GB memory. I'm running the front/backend on this system with a PVR-150. Last week I updated from version .19 to .20. <br><br>Recently I noticed that the cpu fan roars when I am playing video back and transcoding at the same time. (girlfriend complained.) I'm using standard resolution, not HD. This may not be new because I wasn't transcoding as frequently in the past.<br><br>This lead me to look into the issue. For reference, I recompiled the from the 9/11 source and built the source using --arch=k7 --enable-xvmc --enable-opengl-vsync.<br><br>After some testing I settled on the standard video decoder with kernel deinterlacing. xvmc and libmpeg2 seemed to use more cpu as measured using 'top'.<br><br>Playback of medium resolution clips (480x480) requires 25-50% of the processor (it jumps around a fair about).
Live TV requires a bit more. Whenever I play and transcode at the same time the CPU fan comes on very loudly. This happens even when the mythfrontend is using 25%.<br><br>I played the same clips using mplayer and xine and according to top both used about 1/3 the cpu as mythfrontend -- about 10%. If I'm transcoding and play back with either of these players the system is quiet. I can understand that mythfrontend would be slightly less efficient than these players but 3x indicates that I might not have something configured properly.<br><br>Any suggestions on what might be causing this? Do I need to rebuild w/ more optimization. (considered using --k8 but I don't want to introduce 64 bit issues).<br><br>Thanks for your help. <br>Chico<br><p> 
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