[mythtv-users] HD performance problems

[Steven Adeff]

On 11/27/06, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> > On 11/26/06, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> >> Now that you have the correct driver selected (should have thought of
> >> that myself!) try playing it in Myth without XvMC (i.e. 'Standard'
> >> playback mode) and see what the CPU usage is like.
> >
> > Live TV:
> >
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 20152 root      15   0  323m 195m 123m S 73.7 38.8   0:47.03 mythfrontend
> > 20145 root      14  -1  122m 110m  99m S 19.9 22.0   0:11.97 X
> > 20105 mythtv    22   0  287m  38m  14m S  4.0  7.6   0:07.57 mythbackend
> >
> > Watching a recording:
> >
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 20152 root      15   0  326m 200m 124m S 74.6 39.9   1:53.39 mythfrontend
> > 20145 root      14  -1  127m 104m  96m S 24.3 20.6   0:29.84 X
> >
> > Anyway this system is not fast enough to scale down 1080 video and
> > display it at 640x480, without XvMC.  So I need to get XvMC working
> > with Myth.  I was impressed with how nicely it displays with xine, so
> > I would like to get similar performance with Myth.
>
> Hrm. I was playing with this on my desktop, and I can't play HD with
> XvMC, but I can without XvMC. Strange. I don't think it's actually
> working on my main TV frontend either, now that I think about it...
>
> Tom

what deinterlace algorithm did you choose?

-- 
Steve
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