[mythtv-users] choppy video on mythfrontend along with 90% cpu usage

[Rishabh Manocha]

Anybody??

I just want to know what the bandwidth requirements are to to view
live tv or recorded tv (The recording profiles show that I am
recording a Mpeg-2 stream at 480x480). As I had noted earlier, I am
currently uploading at about 700 Kb/s for live tv and a bit slower for
recorded tv. However this makes the tv look like it's playing in slow
motion. I tried changing the time stretch hoping that would improve
things, but in vain.

I found this thread
(http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-December/063827.html)
in the mailing lists about bandwidth requirements which seems to
suggest a upload rate of about 900 kb/s. Can anyone confirm this for
me.

I hope to get all this working by tonight so that I will be able to
record and still enjoy all the world cup matches on my TV - so please
- any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Rishabh

On 6/10/06, Rishabh Manocha <rmanocha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I've been running MythTv on my desktop (P4 2.0 GHz, 512 MB Ram, 80Gb
> HD, PVR-150, nvidia GeForce4 MX 420) for a while now and evrything
> wokrs fine on it(both mythbackend and mythfrontend running on the same
> machine).
>
> However, I recently bought a $40 machine from someone on craigslist (P
> III 750 MHz, 160 MB Ram, ATI 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) video card) so
> that I can connect it to my TV with a s-video out. This machine
> connects to the backend well and the menus work just fine and show me
> all the info needed. However, when it comes to playing either recorded
> tv or live tv, the video becomes choppy (much more so with live tv
> than with recorded tv) and mythfrontend starts using almost 90% of
> cpu.
>
> My backend is uploading data at about 700 Kb/s (as seen on gkrellm)
> while watching live tv and about 300 kb/s while watching recorded tv.
> Both machines are connected through a router with the backends ip at
> 192.168.0.3 and the frontends ip at 192.168.0.15.
>
> I'm wondering if this is a networking issue 'cause mythfrontend
> running on the same machine as mythbackend shows video and audio just
> fine.
>
> Any clues where to look??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rishabh
>