[mythtv-users] Re: Epia-M10K (Nehemiah) software mpeg2 decoder

[Andrew G. Wilson]

There's a thread over at the viaarena.com forums talking about different 
revisions of the M10k producing different CPU usage, and it's something to do 
with MMX/SSE capability not being detected on the newer ones. I can't remember 
the details, but that's where I'd start looking.


> 
> Yup ticking along hapilly at about 40% here on an M9000.
> 
> The only think that springs to mind about your two machines is are they
> truly identical? same hard drive? same RAM? same BIOS settings? are the
> memory timings set the same in the BIOS?
> 
> However, I'd recommend you try and get the hardware decoding working. If
> people don't use it and don't report problems then it will never get fixed!
> 
> Cheers,