[mythtv-users] Mythtv frontend on PPC

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 16 October 2013 22:12, O&M Ugarcina <mo.ucina at gmail.com> wrote:
> - In the beginning was stuttering audio and video , but turned out the CPU
> was hitting 100% all the time , and NOT because of mythfrontend , but it was
> osx 10.5.8 Leopard issue syslogd and aslmanager . Between the two of them
> they were using up all the CPU , myth did not get a look in . So after I
> nobbled those two out of the picture , I could get back to myth .
> - At the moment I have set-up video playback profile to opengl-slim and have
> one-filed(hw) and one-filed as primary and secondary deinterlacers with
> de-blocking filter checked off . I also have separate playback for video and
> GUI set both with iMac native resolution display size . Please suggest other
> combinations of playback profile settings , which could be more efficient
> and maintain best picture quality .
> - The CPU load on the mythfrontend now sits at about 25 to 35% when watching
> SD channels at 576i , but goes up to 65 to 85% when watching HD at 1080i .
> Which gives a very good viewing experience with no drops or stuttering of
> either video or audio, and that is what I was trying to achieve .
>

Great to know that..

In the end, ignoring all the messing around with the source code; how
long did it take to compile?