[MythTV-Users] Interest Only: VMware 4 Myth Performance

[David Madsen]

I just set up myth in VMware as well to test it out and got it all working.
I had the opposite problem with the sound drivers though.. I got the kernel
ES1371 driver to load and work fine with most apps, but whenever I tried to
watch a recording or live tv, the sound was all garbled.  Didn't really
investigate into that part of the problem so I don't know what caused it. I
installed the alsa drivers and they're working just great.  I resized my X
desktop to be the same size as my recorded files (640x480) and the local
processor doesn't go above about 30% utilization.  Not bad considering.  If
I make the desktop bigger than that, and it has to start scaling the video,
the utilization goes up alot higher.  I'm quite impressed with it and will
keep it on here to be able to watch while roommates are upstairs on the real
TV :)

Dave Madsen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Catchpole" <admin at aphrodit.homeunix.net>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: [MythTV-Users] Interest Only: VMware 4 Myth Performance


> For your interest,
>
> MythVideo (Current CVS) playing the X-Men-2 Mpeg trailer, full screen
(1150
> by something) in Vmware 4 on Windows XP SP1 on a 2x 1700MP Athlon Box with
> 512mb Ram, 256mb allocated to Gentoo Linux compiled with optimisations for
> Athlon (non-smp).
>
> Processor Usage 78% User, 21% System
> Mplayer uses approx. Myth Video and Mplayer use around 60Mb of ram when
> loaded and playing - this relative to just MythTV (on KDE 3 on X11 4.3)
>
> Bear in mind that there's no XV support. I'm using the kernel compiled-in
> for ESS 1371 support (not alsa - won't modprobe?)
>
> It actually plays the trailer very acceptably with no tearing or jitter.
> Mplayer sometimes starts up without sound however! (But I have got KDE
Sound
> loaded)
>
> Useless but possibly interesting? (Maybe for Windows front-end use?)
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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