Hi Rick,<br><br>Thanks for the tip ! Unfortunately, the nvidia kernel module in 6629 doesn't load in my kernel, known problem too (<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113466">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113466
</a>). That's what made me go to ~amd64 on the nvidia driver in the first place.<br><br>However I went to seek middle ground and I emerged version 7676-r1. That one loads and it fixes my mythfrontend problem !! Playback is smooth and CPU is down to 15-20%, still a bit worse than mplayer, but quite acceptable.
<br><br>Many thanks indeed<br> Vincent<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick van der Mieden</b> <<a href="mailto:mieden8@zonnet.nl">mieden8@zonnet.nl</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Vincent,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I did have almost the same problem. It's in the nvidia
driver. The latest version is eating your cpu. Just un-install in and
emerge the stable one from gentoo. This fixed it for me.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">*
media-video/nvidia-glx<br> Latest version
available: 1.0.6629-r6<br> Latest version
installed: 1.0.6629-r6<br> Size of downloaded
files: 16,116 kB<br> Homepage:
<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.nvidia.com/</a><br>
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX
libraries<br> License:
NVIDIA</font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">*
media-video/nvidia-kernel<br> Latest version
available: 1.0.6629-r4<br> Latest version
installed: 1.0.6629-r4<br> Size of downloaded
files: 16,116 kB<br> Homepage:
<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.nvidia.com/</a><br>
Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA X11
driver<br> License:
NVIDIA</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Regards</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Rick</font></span></div><br>
<div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us">
<hr>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vincent
Berger<br><b>Sent:</b> maandag 26 december 2005 21:30<br><b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [mythtv-users] Choppy video,
mythfrontend eating cpu<br></font><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_108692d466b2b580_1">
<div></div>I'm building my first myth box. I've got most of the stuff working
but I have this lingering problem for which I'd appreciate some
help.<br><br>Video playback is choppy, with lots of "prebuffering pauses". The
CPU is pegged at 100%, all of it on mythfrontend according to top. It's the same
whether I play live tv or a recording. If I play with mplayer instead (either
live on /dev/video0 or a recording made by myth), it's all smooth with the CPU
at < 10%, big difference ! Searching the archives, I found references to
possible sound problems, but I don't think that's the case here, I've tried to
cripple my sound artificially by pointing mythfrontend to an alsa device that
doesn't exist (and saying OK to continue with no sound), and the problem
remains, choppy video, high cpu (and no sound of course). <br><br>This is on an
up-to-date gentoo, amd64 (Athlon 64 3000), 512MB, sata drive, PVR-150, video
output to a CRT TV through S-Video on a cheap nVidia card. Latest nVidia driver
(81.78), gentoo ebuild for mythtv (0.18.1-r1 ).<br><br>Any clue where to look
?<br>Thanks<br> Vincent<br>
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