[mythtv-users] Playback problems in iPlayer HD playback

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Jul 19 14:47:45 UTC 2011


On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:23:19 +0100, John Reid <johnbaronreid at netscape.net>
wrote:
> On 19/07/11 13:04, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:12:55 +0100, John
Reid<johnbaronreid at netscape.net>
>> wrote:
>>> When I'm viewing standard iPlayer content in the browser, top reports
>>> about 70% CPU usage. For HD content it reports about 150%. Does this
>>> mean I'm not using the Intel integrated on-board graphics?
>> Prior to 0.25, MythTV does not use the onboard video decoding on Intel
>> hardware. However, the chip in your processor does have sufficient
power
>> to
>> run the OpenGL video renderer, and you should be running that rather
than
>> the default Xv.
>>
> That sounds useful, I'm not 100% sure what to do though. Is Xv what X 
> uses by default? I have opengl installed. You're saying it doesn't seem 
> to be using it?

Xv is what MythTV uses by default.  However in this case, MythTV is
irrelevant.  iPlayer is an external application, the Adobe flash player,
which is simply exceedingly inefficient.  MythTV has no control over the
matter.


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