[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend High CPU Usage
Dana Hata
estespark at 141.com
Wed Oct 20 12:33:31 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 23:34 -0400, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
> Dana Hata wrote:
>
> >Mythtv ver.: 0.16
> >
> >
> >OK, I've discovered my stuttering (In Live TV and Watch Recordings) is
> >caused by very high CPU usage- it's essentially at 100%, and I've got a
> >1.8 Ghz P4. xvinfo seems to indicate XVideo is functioning normally.
> >DMA is enabled on all hard drives. I've searched the mailing list but
> >haven't found anything definitive to address my specific problem. What
> >could be causing such high CPU usage? Is there anything I can do to get
> >CPU usage down?
> >
> >Dana
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> I don't know if they fixed it, but i had to turn off show a preview of
> the show. I just do a thumbnail. Apparently it was still running the
> preview when exiting.
>
> Have you run top to see which program is using all of that cpu usage,
> back end frontend something else?
>
> Do you have a pvrx50 or software encoder?
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I turned that preview off, but my watch recordings still stutters. I
think they did fix that issue. To answer your questions- I've got a
PVR-250, and most of the CPU was going to X.
Interestingly, I was wrong about the cause of the stuttering- for watch
recordings at least. High CPU usage WAS causing stuttering in Live TV,
but I have since remove some other running programs to get my total
mythfrontend CPU usage down to around 70% while watching LiveTV. Now
there is no stuttering when watching Live TV.
But Watch Recordings is still stuttering horribly, even though my CPU
load is only about 40-50% during it. Watch recordings is simply
unusable for me at this point. I have to use mplayer or totem to watch
those recorded nuvs. Maybe it's starved for data or something?
Dana
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