<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">Message: 20</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:11:38 -0800</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">From: Kevin Ross <</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);" href="compose?to=kevin@familyross.net">kevin@familyross.net</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Tuning HD with ZOTAC IONITX-C-U RT.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">To: </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);" href="http://us.mc520.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0,
127);">Message-ID: <</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);" href="compose?to=4CFE78DA.1040300@familyross.net">4CFE78DA.1040300@familyross.net</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">On 12/07/2010 08:03 AM, P.J. Trudell wrote:</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> Thanks everyone for helping me get my HD-PVR working.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> Now that it seems to be working can someone point me in the right </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0,
127);">> direction for tuning my frontend and backend for playing and recording </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> the HD video.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> I have a </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> <</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500028" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500028</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">>ZOTAC </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> IONITX-C-U RT motherboard running on 2 1G sticks of memour and a 8G </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> thumb
drive. Very quite because there is no fans or noise. It seems </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> to play HD well using the VDPAU normal and slim but it has audio sync </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> issues at high. Is anyone having good success with their settings and </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> would like to share.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">You won't be able to use VDPAU High with ION. It doesn't have the </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">horsepower.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> On a maybe related note, I notice that the Backend is using just about </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> all of its memory while streaming HD and the front end is also using </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> just about all of the 1.5G (500 mb of the ram is used for video) while </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> playing HD. Although the backend seems to be using about 2/3 of its </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> memory when only the backend (no tuners being used) is running (it is </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> headless but is running GDM Gnome) and the frontend is using 1.3 of </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> its 1.5 available with just the frontend running (also using GNOME not </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> XFC). Both readings are using top.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">> It seems like ubuntu is burning up quite a bit of memory. Why?</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">></span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">Did you subtract the buffers and cache usage from the total memory </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">used? What is the output of "free
-m"?</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><br>free -m<br> total used free shared buffers cached<br>Mem: 1506 1320 185 0 76 811<br>-/+ buffers/cache: 432 1074<br>Swap: 376 0 376<br><br>This seems to be the same as top. Ubuntu seems to be a
memory hog, or something is using it up.<br><br><br><br></td></tr></table>