[mythtv-users] Sluggish Frontend on 4k TV

Duncan Brown mythtv2 at duncb.co.uk
Thu Dec 3 16:48:11 UTC 2015


On 03/12/2015 15:11, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Duncan Brown <mythtv2 at duncb.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I've just got a new 4k TV, and navigating the menus in mythtv is extremely
>> slow
>>
>> Graphics card is a GT730, but I'm guessing that really make no difference as
>> it's the CPU that is spiking massively. Once I get into any kind of TV,
>> video etc to watch it's fine once vdpau takes over.
>>
>> CPU is a dual core Athon 4850e, so not exactly the greatest
> FWIW, I'm running on a 3.0 GHz E8400 Core 2 Duo with a GT640 at 4K and
> the menus in mythfrontend are just fine.  I don't see any difference
> in speed between 4K and 1080p.  That's a faster CPU than you have, but
> it's still on the low end these days.  I do max out the CPU on 4K
> video content from YouTube and such.
>
> Eric
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>
Bit of a fudge, but I've set it so the gui runs at 1080 and only 
switches up to 4k during playback

that works well enough for now



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