<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello,</font></span></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2">I had mythbuntu 7.10 and playback was great (and by great, i mean absolutely perfect) with the yadif 2x deinterlacer. Now when i use yadif 2x after the upgrade (actually a fresh reinstall of the 8.04), the playback plays for about half a second at a time then pauses for half a second at a time.</font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Cpu usage in top is at 40% (20% of each core) on my 1.8ghz core 2 duo processor with an nvidia 7300. That's exactly what it was at on my 7.10 install too. I had made a backup of my xorg.conf file before the upgrade (wipe really), and that backup doesn't fix the issue.</font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Anyone have any ideas what could be happening here?</font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">-Thanks<span class="369142621-26042008"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></font></font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"></span></font></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"></span></font></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"></span></font></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"><font color="#0000ff">OK, an update to my original post:</font></span></font></font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"></span></font></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"><font color="#0000ff">This issue happens only when i have transcode or mencoder running. When those are off, the playback is great. The "nice" of mythfrontend.real is set to 0 and the nice of transcode and mencoder are set to 19.</font></span></font></font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"></span></font></font></span> </div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"><font color="#0000ff">Please help if you can</font></span></font></font></span></div> <div><span class="341140121-26042008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="369142621-26042008"><font color="#0000ff">-Thanks</font> </span></font></font></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Do you have "UseEvents" "True" in your xorg.conf? That dropped my CPU load from 45% to about 8% with SD.</div><div><br></div><div>beww</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>