[mythtv-users] Upgrade old or cut my losses and buy new?

Dennis Lou dlou99 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 5 23:48:15 UTC 2007


----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>
>> I run a Sempron 2800, socket 754, frontend/backend
>>doing HDTV without XVMC.  X+mythfrontend usage 
>>is ~50% watching live.  I run kernel deinterlace.
>
>You say "HDTV", is this 720P, 1080i or what. 
>Also how are you driving  
>your monitor and at what resolution?

Both 720p and 1080i source driving a 50" plasma at 720p resolution via VGA (my plasma TV has VGA, component and DVI input but unfortunately my FX5200 doesn't have DVI or component).

>Other factors, such as whether a full-blown KDE install
>or a lightweight window manager might make a difference, 

Window manager?  Who needs a window manager? :-)

>also things like what happens if you try and run a commflag 
>or a transcode job or two at the same time, 

Largely nothing adverse happens.  There might occasionally be a skipped frame on startup, but I think that has more to do with swapping and HDD speed than CPU.  Most of the time I don't even get that.

>... as would video  
>drivers and their options, system tuning and many other factors.

Bingo.  Took me a few minutes to play around with the various
MythTV, Xorg and nVidia settings to come up with something
optimal.  Extra audio buffering turned out to be a big one.  I set all that stuff up about a year and a half ago, so I can't recall all the details of what I did.  But if you are really curious, I can post some (edited!) excerpts from my configs.

-Dennis





 
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