[mythtv-users] CPU not enough to drive 1080P? Core2duo
Mark Hutchinson
mark at onnow.net
Fri Feb 8 18:19:08 UTC 2008
Others are seeing issues with SD as well
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/249029?search_string=smooth%20rewind;#249029
There has got to be something wrong with SVN.
I added comments to ticket 3773 which seems to be what I am seeing
exactly.
Problem being, firewire is working much better in SVN than the
released version
On 8-Feb-08, at 10:51 AM, Meik Piepmeyer wrote:
> Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>> I am finding exactly the same thing.
>> Capture via firewire. HD channels are great.
>> SD channels are a bit jitterty and so is the SPDIF audio.
>>
>> Could this be the 8600 Nvidia card? What would a better XvMC card
>> be?
>> 8800? or is the 8XXX series that is not working with XvMC?
>>
>> Now the question. WHY in the world would SD be jittery and HD ( much
>> greater throughput ) is clear and perfect.
>>
>> Ideas? There is really not much in the logs.
>> [...]
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> just a guess: It could be the power saving of the CPU. Maybe when
> doing
> HD it is mostly at the maximum frequency - but SD is not much work and
> it swaps from low to high frequency. This should not be a problem, but
> if the cpufreq or anything related to it is buggy it would be
> possible.
> I would try to play SD without any energy saving of the CPU.
>
>
> Meik
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