[mythtv-users] High xorg CPU usage when playing recording

[Marc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of jgmtfia Mr
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:18 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] High xorg CPU usage when playing recording
> 
> > > I am running the SVN head and recently, during recording playback
> xorg
> > > CPU usage goes to 99% and stays there until playback is complete.
> I
> 
> > Did you enable XvMC in the mythfrontend?
> > Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback
> > Change the "Preferred MPEG2 Decoder" to "Standard XvMC"
> >
> > This should offload the mpeg2 decoding to your video cards and free
> up
> > processing cycles.
> 
> I just tried that.  No change in behavior.  I did try changing the
> deinterlacer from BOB to "one-field" on my usage dropped to 2% for
> xorg and 10% for mythfrontend.
> 
> Is this normal?  Should BOB deinterlacing take so much CPU?
> _______________________________________________

Not sure, I haven't tried it.

Try this, Edit your /etc/X11/XvMCConfig file and put this in it
"libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1"
Remove the quotes, that should be all that is in the file, no path needed.
Then restart X and try playback again,