[mythtv-users] Stuttering when watching DVD with subtitles

[stanley kamithi]

see mythtv ticket #2800. its a known issue. fixed in svn.


On 2/4/07, Christian Güdel <me at blaue0.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 12:15 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> > On Feb 4, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Christian Güdel wrote:
> >
> > > *up*
> > >
> > > nobody ever experienced this problem?
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 09:46 +0100, me at blaue0.net wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> my frontend seems to have a strange problem: If I turn on
> > >> subtitles in
> > >> a DVD, every time a new subtitles must be rendered it'll lose some
> > >> frames. I doubt that this is hardware related, as it works with
> > >> mplayer. Anyway, here's my hardware:
> > >>
> > >> AMD AthlonXP 1800+
> > >> 512 MB RAM
> > >> Shuttle Motherboard
> > >> 32 MB CF card
> > >>
> > >> If I ssh into the box while watching I can see that there is about
> > >> 15-20% idle when subtitles are rendered, so it is definitly not a
> > >> cpupower-problem. But I don't have any other ideas. Maybe someone
> > >> else
> > >> has a useful hint for me...
> > >>
> > >> Christian
> >
> >
> > I'd guess you are in fact running out of CPU, you don't have a lot to
> > start with.
> >
> > If your load numbers come from top remember that they are averages
> > over a fairly long period of time (as CPUs think) and you are almost
> > certainly hitting peaks way over that.
>
> Well, ok then. Do you think I'd have more luck with a Intel Celeron M
> 1.5 Ghz cpu?
>
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