[mythtv-users] pic bad/channels off

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 06 June 2003 12:59 am, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> I haven't
> tested this one yet, but I'm wondering if using an aspect ratio that is not
> 4:3 increases the load on the frontend (decoding and displaying) process
> appreciably ... I've always been puzzled as to why mythfrontend uses so
> much more CPU than other decoding applications like xine.

Hmm -- quite possibly.  It _may_ be that the Xv stuff is doing at least some 
of the scaling in software on your machine, but you've said you're using a 
nvidia card, so I don't think it should be doing that.  Still, might be on to 
something, there.

Isaac