[mythtv-users] upgrade mythbuntu to 8.04, not horrible SD playback

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had mythbuntu 7.10 and playback was great (and by great, i mean  
> absolutely perfect) with the yadif 2x deinterlacer. Now when i use  
> yadif 2x after the upgrade (actually a fresh reinstall of the 8.04),  
> the playback plays for about half a second at a time then pauses for  
> half a second at a time.
>
> Cpu usage in top is at 40% (20% of each core) on my 1.8ghz core 2  
> duo processor with an nvidia 7300. That's exactly what it was at on  
> my 7.10 install too. I had made a backup of my xorg.conf file before  
> the upgrade (wipe really), and that backup doesn't fix the issue.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what could be happening here?
>
> -Thanks
>
>
>
> OK, an update to my original post:
>
> This issue happens only when i have transcode or mencoder running.  
> When those are off, the playback is great. The "nice" of  
> mythfrontend.real is set to 0 and the nice of transcode and mencoder  
> are set to 19.
>
> Please help if you can
> -Thanks

Do you have "UseEvents" "True" in your xorg.conf? That dropped my CPU  
load from 45% to about 8% with SD.

beww


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