[mythtv-users] high cpu utilization

Niels Dybdahl Niels at Dybdahl.dk
Wed Sep 28 09:21:53 UTC 2005


>
> on my test box (my desktop) when i'm watching live tv on the box the
> _least_ cpu usage I get is 80%
>
> it is an athlon xp 2500+,1gb of ram, kworld vstream xpert (vs-tv878rf),
> and a radeon 9600 SE
>
> top tells me the vast majority of the cpu usage is in backend.
>
> I'm encoding live tv to mpeg4 at 2200bps, with two of the tree options
> recommended for interlaced video enabled - mp3 at quality 6 and 32000bps



Encoding to MPEG4 is CPU-intensive, so I do not think there is anything
wrong.

Niels Dybdahl
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