[mythtv-users] Gentoo + VIA Binary driver

[Mikhail D'Vane]

Glad I could help.  Good luck with the HW decode.

Mik

>From: "Paul W. Smith" <cvpsmith at ncche.olemiss.edu>
>Reply-To: cvpsmith at ncche.olemiss.edu,        Discussion about mythtv 
><mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo + VIA Binary driver
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:08:13 -0500
>
>On Wednesday 14 April 2004 5:52 pm, Mikhail D'Vane wrote:
> > From: Paul Smith <cvpsmith at ncche.olemiss.edu>
> >
> > >Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > >To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo + VIA Binary driver
> > >Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:09:30 -0500
> > >
> > >At 07:29 PM 4/14/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> > >>Well, you definitely have a stepping 3, so the EDX fix is required if
> > >>you're using software decode.  Double-checking that is probably a
> > >>good thing to do (you might even want to blow away the work
> > >>directory and the .tar from distfiles and start from scratch).
> > >
> > >Doing this as we speak.  I'll let you know how it goes...
> > >
> > >>I'm running MythTV 0.14-r1 straight from the portage ebuild.  I've 
>also
> > >>ran 0.13 on this box and had same performance.  It also looks
> > >>like your Epia setup (kernel version, XFree version) is very close
> > >>to the same as mine (and I haven't noticed any significant change
> > >>with the different -epia kernels or Xfree-epias).
> > >>
> > >>What process is eating most of your CPU bandwidth?  If it's
> > >>mythfrontend, the EDX fix is suspect.  If it's something else then
> > >>I can't help out much - the incorrect MMX detection on the M10K
> > >>was the only CPU-hog issue I've had with MythTV.
> > >
> > >It's the mythfrontend process, so the EDX is suspect.
>
>I finally got the problem fixed!  It was definitely the EDX issue, and an 
>edit
>and re-merge did the trick.  Now I'm getting around 30%-40% CPU usage, and 
>no
>skipping!
>
>Also, I don't have HW decode setup in the settings.pro file.  I remember 
>doing
>this at one point, but with everything I've done to get MythTV up and 
>running
>(including several re-installs) I must have lost it somewhere.  I'll enable
>HW CLE266 and see if I can get that number down to 20%.
>
>Thanks for the help (especially Mik)!
>
>Paul
>
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