[mythtv-users] Video Quality
Alan Snyder
ax763 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 12 11:59:06 EST 2004
>
> I have DDR ram too, but I only have 256MB of it. I noticed
> by using the "free" program that almost all of it was being
> used while watching LiveTV, so I've ordered some more and
> will post results when I receive it.
>
> I'm really suprised that your 1GHz %thlon can capture at
> 640x480...my mythbackend process takes about 60%-%70 CPU when
> I bump the resolution from 480x480 to 640x480. I must be
> doing something wrong. Are you using a custom kernel? As
> far as I know, my kernel is not optimized for Athlon
> processors, as I am using the latest of Axel's prebuilt ones.
>
Mine's a straight Mandrake 9.1 install. Kernel is 2.4.21-0.13mdk.
The whole install was done according to the myth docs last July
and has never been touched. I honestly can't tell you what I'm
doing right, since I haven't really done anything. It does seem
that playback is very efficient with the nVidia drivers. My
PII-450 remote frontend with an old Voodoo Banshee card uses four times
the CPU. I guess some of that is network processing overhead. My
backend process might hit 60-70% but my frontend uses less than 15.
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