[mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat May 31 23:42:05 EDT 2003


On Saturday 31 May 2003 10:19 am, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> >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.
>
> Interesting. So do you think my considerably higher numbers (even allowing
> for the CPU difference, I think) indicate some sort of configuration error?
> If so ... any thoughts on the candidate? Or are Celerons really that mush
> worse than Athlons? Or is Myth optimized for Athlons in some subtle way?

I honestly have no idea, unless you happen to be running a debug build of 
mythtv.  All decoding is happening in libavcodec, and everyone uses that same 
lib, essentially =)

Isaac


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