[mythtv-users] Help in playing hdtv

[Juergen Sachs]

Am Montag 11 Februar 2008 22:03:15 schrieb Scott D. Davilla:
> >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 :-(
>
> Something is very wrong somewhere. My 1.6GHz Core Due under OSX
> running mythfrontend can handle 1080i with about 50 percent on both
> cores. This is all software decode too (no xvmc in OSX). So you box
> with a slightly fast Core2 Duo and xvmc from the native nvidia driver
> should have no problem.
>
That sound good. But I still have to find the culprit that slows things 
down :-(
Any hints ? But I guess OSX is to different in configuration then suse 10.3.

Juergen

-- 
Jürgen Sachs
http://www.mobacomp.de/