[mythtv] Skipping Commercials When Not Done Flagging

[Geoffrey Kruse]

On Apr 5, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Chris Pinkham wrote:

>>> If your C3 can't keep up with the shows you're recording even after
>
>> Actually, the CPU is hardly being used while a show is being recorded
>> because I have a PVR350.  It is also usually at 30% while watching a
>> show because of the hardware assisted mpeg encoding on the EPIA board.
>>  So it should be able to do semi-realtime flagging fairly well.  I
>> didn't know about this feature existed so I'm going to go implement it
>> right now and see how it turns out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -> Fritz
>
> So you can play a file with only 30% utilization because you're using
> hardware decoding, but how much CPU does it take if you turn off
> the hardware assisted decoding since that's what matters?  In order
> to flag a recording, the commercial flagger has to decode and "play"
> the recording and it can't do this using the hardware assist, so it
> will take quite a bit more CPU.  I don't know how much though.
>
On my 1ghz c3 it takes about 60% to play with no hw assist.  this means 
if I am not watching tv, commflagging can keep up, but If I am, it 
can't.

Geoff
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