[mythtv-users] X.org CPU Usage @ 100% when showing guide redux

[Brian Wood]

On May 23, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Jason Keirstead wrote:

>>
> My issue is not the playback profile. I have tried every profile and
> every combination of deinterlacer and renderer option available to  
> me (I
> do not have XvMC support so I can not try that option)
>
> I have a more complicated issue than this. Again - decoding of the HD
> takes relatively no CPU at all. Playback of SD takes less than 1% CPU.
> Playback of HD takes less than 10%. *ONLY* spikes every minute and
> *ONLY* when the guide is present does the CPU spike up like this.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what causes X to eat CPU like this? To me it
> seems like it is something related to the guide and/or video scaling.

If you're using the nVidia drivers do you have "UseEvents" "True" in  
your x config file? Adding this parameter reduced my  overall CPU load  
significantly, though I didn't have the precise symptoms you do, so it  
may not be your problem.

beww