[mythtv-users] Multi-threaded h.264 decoding in 0.21

[Johan]

Hi,

I'm using the latest code from 0.21 fixes branch (r18536) and trying to get a smooth h.264 playback on a Intel Core2Duo 2140 1.6 GHz. I have set the "max CPU" setting in the display profile to 2 since it is a dual core and according to the mythfrontend.log file is 2 cores used for decoding in ffmpeg but when I'm watching a h.264 stream with the internal mythtv player (like live tv) I get prebuffer pauses and one of the threads in mythfrontend process is using 100% CPU according to ps but that means 100% on one core and it does not seem to spread the decoding on 2 cores properly. Is this not really supported in 0.21? Do I need to go the CoreAVC path to get this working? I have tried running both as a regular user and as root but there is no difference. The kernel is configured for SMP and I can see two CPU:s in /proc/cpuinfo. What is the problem?


top -H output during h.264 playback (with jerky video):
 
top - 15:00:55 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.56, 0.16, 0.05
Tasks: 102 total,   5 running,  97 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 52.1%us,  0.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 45.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.5%hi,  1.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1032168k total,   325024k used,   707144k free,     7252k buffers
Swap:  1959920k total,        0k used,  1959920k free,   149960k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3366 mythtv    20   0  334m 142m  68m R  100 14.1   0:18.65 mythfrontend
 3275 root      RT -10 99.8m  88m  51m S    6  8.8   0:02.47 Xorg
 3364 mythtv    20   0  334m 142m  68m R    1 14.1   0:00.28 mythfrontend
 3368 mythtv    20   0  334m 142m  68m S    1 14.1   0:00.14 mythfrontend
 3321 mythtv    20   0  4240 2048 1540 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 xscreensaver
 3329 mythtv    20   0  334m 142m  68m S    0 14.1   0:01.69 mythfrontend
 3367 mythtv    20   0  334m 142m  68m S    0 14.1   0:00.40 mythfrontend
 3372 mythtv    20   0  334m 142m  68m R    0 14.1   0:00.08 mythfrontend
 3359 root      20   0  2308 1112  852 R    0  0.1   0:00.04 top
    1 root      20   0  2088  680  580 S    0  0.1   0:00.78 init


lines from my mythfrontend.log file with -v all parameter:

2008-10-04 14:26:18.611 AFD: Stream #0, has id 0x4100 codec id H264, type Video, bitrate 0 at 0x0xaa939df0
2008-10-04 14:26:18.614 VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 1000 700) dec(ffmpeg) cpus(2) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend) osdfade(disabled) deint(none,none) filt()
2008-10-04 14:26:18.614 VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 0 0) dec(ffmpeg) cpus(2) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend) osdfade(disabled) deint(linearblend,linearblend) filt()
2008-10-04 14:26:18.614 VDP: LoadBestPreferences(2048x2048, 0)
2008-10-04 14:26:18.614 VDP: LoadBestPreferences(2048x2048, 60)
2008-10-04 14:26:18.615 VDP: LoadBestPreferences(1280x720, 60)
2008-10-04 14:26:18.615 Using 2 CPUs for decoding
2008-10-04 14:26:18.618 VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 1000 700) dec(ffmpeg) cpus(2) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend) osdfade(disabled) deint(none,none) filt()
2008-10-04 14:26:18.619 VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 0 0) dec(ffmpeg) cpus(2) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend) osdfade(disabled) deint(linearblend,linearblend) filt()


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