Using a better video card that can take the current drives will probably help alot. Not to mention a "faster" video card will offload more CPU cycles. Atleast that is what i have noticed anyway.<br><br>Mitchell
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Macaulay</b> <<a href="mailto:robert.macaulay@gmail.com">robert.macaulay@gmail.com</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;">
> myth 0.20 from atrpms(build 155), nvidia 9631(yes, legacy). Xorg<br>> 7.1.1, KDE window manager. glx disabled<br>><br>> and I'm currently performing this on mythfront start<br>> /usr/bin/nvidia-settings --assign="XVideoBlitterSyncToVBlank=0" \
<br>> --assign="XVideoTextureSyncToVBlank=0" \<br>> --assign "SyncToVBlank=0"<br>><br>> The glx disablement and the nvidia-settings were all grasps at<br>> stability(various mailing list posts).. I had a brief but
<br>> wife-alienating lockup series of events where watching live TV would<br>> lock up X(ie, reboot time). This was in the XvMC days as well.<br>><br><br>More info:<br>* Linux mythbackend 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Apr 10 17:46:00 EDT
<br>2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>* Content was HD recording from HDHomeRun<br>* Deinterlacing. Even though this is a SDTV, w/out interlacing, I saw<br>the effects when watching tv. Pans would have horizontal lines across
<br>them where the frames weren't lines up. Either way, turning that off<br>solved nothing<br>* Also tried Standard vs the lib MPEG decoder(the non XvMC one). No difference.<br>* Re-enabled all the default settings in nvidia-settings(vsync, etc).
<br>* re-enabled glx<br>* running at "720x480" now. Much cleaner picture. Still have same<br>playback issues though.<br>* realtime threads enabled and working<br>* was using a spdif alsa config to enable softvolume. Disabled that.
<br>Output now just going through normal alsa channels(just the rate dmix<br>plugin active). Either way, its AC3 audio, so the passthrough setting<br>straight to the SPDIF works eliminating any system processing. Amp<br>goes into digital mode properly.
<br>* XvMC did allow proper playback, but at cost of instability(this is a<br>backend/frontend box. Locking up is bad).<br><br>The cpu is split 75% mythfrontend and 25% Xorg. No io waits. About 5%<br>in system, the other 95% is user space.
<br><br>Watching same content on a slightly more powerful remote frontend<br>box(3200+) via vga(1360x768) results in if I recall about 50-60%<br>usage.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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