[mythtv] ffmpeg sync
John
reidjr at btconnect.com
Sun Oct 14 21:36:26 UTC 2007
Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 01:53:39 Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> Mark Kendall wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/12/07, Janne Grunau <janne-mythtv at grunau.be> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please test and report any problems. Patches apply with -p2.
>>>>
>>> No obvious issues over a couple of hours of viewing.
>>>
>>> BBC-HD (DVB-S) is still problematic - it is clearly using both
>>> cores (Core2Duo E6600) but one is pegged at almost 100%, the other
>>> 60-80% and I get minor pauses every 3-4 seconds. Live tv is worse
>>> than recorded material.
>>>
>>>
>> With a AMD X2 4600+ i get both cores regularly going to 90% load on
>> BBC-HD. Problem is that the video is not fluent though, lots of
>> micro-pauses. Its almost watchable....
>>
> please try attached patch.
>
> Janne
>
>
Once I got over the apparent dependency on gcc version (gcc-2.95 and
gcc-4.1 both failed to compile the ffmpeg patch for some reason, seems
like a known issue) and compiled with gcc-3.4, I used both the main, and
additional patch.
On a e4300 (1.8GHz core2duo) I could watch BBC-HD with glitches every
second, even though the resource meter suggested I was using only 80% CPU.
Overclocked the e4300 to 2.4GHz, and I was getting 75-80% cpu, evenly
across both cores, and smooth playback. Excellent, so at least on the
samples I tried, the slice based multi threading (whatever that means
:-) ) was working perfectly for BBC-HD.
For performance comparison :
I run my 2 "production" frontends on a single cored 3200+ Athlon64 and
on a e4300 core2duo. I am currently running svn r14404, (last before
myth-vid sync) with a patch to allow coreavc support. With everything
turned off (de-interlacing, de-blocking) I get about 60% across both
cores on the e4300 watching on a 1680x1050 monitor.
I am using the 3200+ as a living room box teamed up with a SD CRT TV. I
was surprised to find I NEARLY get away with watching BBC-HD (albeit
scaled to SD through tv out on an nvidia 6200 card). The 3200+, is
running at stock speed in an IWILL ZPCsp64. Unfortunately its a great
little bookshelf PC, but the BIOS doesn't allow any over clock. I have
the ddr400 ram as a matched 256M pair, in dual channel mode. The ram
bandwidth seems to make a difference, and I can watch BBC-HD with few
enough glitches to be bearable.
John
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