[mythtv-users] MythTV as a windowed app?

[Chad Jannusch]

On 7/29/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>    I've never run across the need before but it seems with MythTV-0.19
> the CPU usage requirements have gone up a bit and now one of my
> underpowered machines is really not very happy running Myth when the
> desktop resolution is set to 1280x1024. I'm seeing a lot of jerkiness
> in the video that I never saw with Myth-0.18.
>
>    While investigating the problem I found that if I severely lowered
> the screen resolution down to 800x600 then things worked about as well
> as they used to with Myth-0.18. It seems to me that this might mean
> that the local CPU has to rescale the video from whatever the
> recording is to the screen resolution and the new version is placing
> somewhat higher requirements that my slow CPUs cannot handle. Is this
> correct at all?
>
>    My question is how can I best configure Myth-0.19 to not have this
> problem?
>
>    One thought I had was to be able to run Myth as a truly windowed
> app. I've never run in anything except full screen mode. If this is
> possible then I'd like to understand how to run Myth in a window of
> 800x600 while the screen is at 1280x1024.
>
>    Maybe there are other ways folks have discovered to make this more
> efficient?
>
>    Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
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Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the "official" way or not, but something like
"mythfrontend --geometry 800x600" will work.

--Chad
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