[mythtv-users] Myth 0.14 - Version 1.0??

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting steve at nexusuk.org:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> 
> > I don't use my 350s TV-out currently, and had no immediate plans to use it.
>  But
> > I bought it "just in case".  I do use the FM functionality though.  (the
> 250
> > doesn't have FM)
> 
> Am I right in thinking that you can't use the FM at the same time as 
> encoding TV?
Nope.  :(



> > MPEG2/4 playback isn't that CPU intense at sane resolutions (i.e. not 1080i
> HD)
> 
> I think this depends on the VGA card to some extent - when playing through 
> my S3 ProSavage, X will sit there sucking up 10% of my CPU time even 
> though it's doing XV.  Whereas I've seen systems running nVidia cards 
> where X is using practically no CPU during playback.
NV cards rock.  :)

In my case, my machine uses practically no CPU during playback, even without
using XvMC.