[mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 30 May 2003 04:01 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> As I said, this appears to be true for Myth playback, which has much higher
> demands on systems than (say) xine. On my 1.7 GHz Cel, for example, Myth
> uses about 30% of CPU during playback, right in the 450-500 range. But xine
> uses <5% ... though I've only tried 320x240 TV caps, roughly 500 MB/hr,
> with xine on this system not Divx re-encodes of DVDs.

Just as another data point, on my main machine (xp 1800+), playback of 
full-sized video in mythtv takes around 3-5% cpu for mpeg4 encodes, and just 
slightly higher for the mpeg2 encodes from my pvr-250.  Both of those are 
with deinterlacing turned on.  Playback of the mpeg2 encodes with other 
programs (xine/mplayer), is similar.

Isaac