Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Richard van Paasen wrote:
>   
>> Is xine eating up the cpu (check with 'top')? If you have a (VIA) unichrome
>> video chipset, check the ~/.xine/config file of the user that runs freevo.
>> There is an entry for saving cpu cycles:
>>
>>   video.device.unichrome_cpu_save = 1
>>
>> This takes down the cpu load from 40% to 10% on my box with xxmc output.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Xine was eating the CPU, but the odd thing is that I ran my standalone 
> test command as the same user I run freevo with (root, yes I know but it 
> is fire-walled off from the world).
>
> I have no idea what is causing the problem, but I'm giving up and 
> reverting to 1.7.2 which I was running before with no problems, I will 
> do that tomorrow evening. I have literally changed nothing else between 
> installs, only freevo has changed, but my media centre is now a mess, 
> crashing on playback of video, not recording correctly etc.
>
> I will report back if reverting to 1.7.2 helps, or if this is just a 
> co-incidence and something else happens to have failed / started failing 
> at the same time :) If reverting doesn't work at least I will know for 
> sure that something other than freevo is broken.
>   
Please do Stephen, it'll be interesting to see if it was part/all of the 
problem and what can be done to resolve it.

Thanks,

John

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