[mythtv-users] xorg high cpu usage

[freedenizen]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Lee Koloszyc <teething12 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> freedenizen wrote:
> I believe this is just a PCI bus problem. I have the same card and
> after upgrading to trunk and using VDPAU it all goes away. It is the
> only way I was able to fix it and I spent quite a few nights updating
> everything, flipping options and nothing worked. Even SD video had a
> problem.
> It works beautifully now, 7% CPU 1080i with one-field deinterlacing (I
> was able to use 2x basic before, but with the latest nvidia drivers
> 180.16 and latest mythtv it stutters). The OSD also causes the CPU to
> spike and video to stutter, but I am sure that will be fixed as the code
> gets more mature.
>
> Lee

Well I can try that, but I don't think that is the real problem.  Just
going to the Watch Recordings screen (not playing any video) causes X
to spike to 100% for a few minutes and I can actually see the screen
drawing.  That should be a limitation of the PCI bus I don't think.