[mythtv] performance

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:03:12 -0600

Kevin,
I'm running a pretty stock RH8 and KDE.
gf

"Kevin Bowen" <kevin@ucsd.edu>
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12/18/2002 01:32 PM
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>had the same question about gatos.  Right now myth works great for me
>except i do not see the program
>guide when watching live-tv, it doesn't seem to overlay the video.

I have the same problem... what distribution/window manager/desktop
environment are you running? I'm running redhat 8 with the default
gnome/metacity... I think the answer thats been given to this before is to
use KDE, or a more lightweight window manager... which for me is
unfortunately not a very good solution since I'm not running myth on a
dedicated home theatre machine, but on my normal desktop box which I use 
for
a wide variety of applications other than myth, so switching desktops is 
not
something to be taken lightly. I dont know whether this situation is going
to change in future versions.... perhaps someone involved in the 
development
of .8 could comment?

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Greg.Froese@federated.ca
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Kevin,
I echo your concerns about the non-aiw version of the Radeon.  I also have
the Radeon 7500 (non-aiw) and
had the same question about gatos.  Right now myth works great for me
except i do not see the program
guide when watching live-tv, it doesn't seem to overlay the video.

are the gatos drivers also for non-aiw Radeon cards and what are the
benefits?
gf

"Kevin Bowen" <kevin@ucsd.edu>
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12/18/2002 12:47 PM
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I don't know if that article applies to me, it seems specifc to via
chipsets... only mention of SBlive was giving it as an example of
something
which didn't work right due to the via bug (unless I missed something,
which
is entirely possible considering the navigation controls on that site are
in
german ;)

I also run an sis735 board, with athlon xp1800+ and radeon 7500 (non-aiw)
and hauppauge wintv. This list was the first I'd ever heard of Gatos... I
googled for it and found the project homepage, but I'm a bit unclear on
what
the purpose is... from the limited info available on the website, it
sounds
like the main purpose of the project is to get vid4linux support (and
related tools) for radeon AIW cards... but both you and m0j0 mentioned
you're running the gatos drivers despite having non-AIW radeons... is
there
supposed to be some performance benefit to this?

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[mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Monty Walls
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:05 AM
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:11:41 -0800
"Kevin Bowen" <kevin@ucsd.edu> wrote:

About SBLive(dma contention pig):  You might appreciate TecChannel's
discussion of the problem.
http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html.  One of things you notice
is that all the VIA motherboards at the time had serious dma performance
issues.
The same problem was also encountered by the Linux guy who does Iomega
Jazz
support:
Serguei Miridonov <mirsev@cicese.mx> (search for vialatency & linux on
google).

As far as performance on individual systems, I average about 85% (mpeg4)
on
a
Leadtek 7350kda (SIS735) with 512mb of cas 2.5 ddr memory using a Athlon
XP2000.  Sound is a Hoontech Digital XG (YMF754), and disks are u2w scsi
on a symbios 8751?. TV-capture card is a Hauppauge WinTV stereo. Video is
an ATI Radeon 7500 using the Gatos XFree drivers + drm patches.

Even using on RTjpeg recording my old system with KT133 motherboard
(athlon
1200)
stutters at 640x480 (looks like memory or bus bandwidth issues).

--
-Monty Walls (mwalls@castor.oktax.state.ok.us)
-                MIS, Oklahoma Tax Commission
-
- My opinions are my own, my employer knows nothing about it.
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