[mythtv-users] Help in playing hdtv

[Steve Peters - Priority Electronics]

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Juergen Sachs
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:06 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: [mythtv-users] Help in playing hdtv


Hi there,

I am running mythtv trunk version an try to get hdtv running smoothly. First
I have to say, that until running the trunk version (I had v0.20 fixes 
before) hdtv livetv was impossible. Now it is playing, but with a 
very "jittery" picture and skiped frames.

I do not know if it is a problem of my hardware configuration:
Gfx: GeForce 7300 SE with native nvidia driver
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6320  @ 1.86GHz
Ram: 2GB

So I think it is not too bad. But when I run "top" while playing a livetv I 
see it is displaying about 100% till 140% for mythfrontend. So I guess I 
reached the limits :-(

Mythfronend is running as a normal user.

So the question is if my hardware is not powerfull enough to play hdtv, or
if 
I have to tweak my config.

Looking in the documentation did not show me a special configuration hint.

So maybe someone here has a similar config and can give me some advice ?

Thanks
Juergen

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Juergen, 

Just a note for you: on my core 2 duo mythbox, top can show processes go up
to 200%. I think that is because the processor is dual core. So if top
reports 100%, it may actually be 50% of each of the cores combined, or 100%
of one of the cores being used, with the other one being idle. So If you're
seeing up to 140%, in real world terms, that is 70% of your total CPU power
being used.
-Steve