How about reducing the resolution? Unless you have HDTV, a normal TV has only 525x525 resolution. Running at 640x480 will reduce the load 25%.
Do you have either glx or fb support for your video card? On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 19:49 +0100, Thomas Börkel wrote: > HI! > > Using NVidia 6629 TV-out with XV for playback in mythfrontend, I get: > > - 1% CPU for mythfrontend > - 40% CPU for X > > But total CPU is at 80%, causing prebuffering pause every now and then > (and all the time, if I enable kernel deint in addition). > > Strange is, I can't see any other process with "top", that takes the > rest of the CPU (the other 40%). > > Watching LiveTV without prebuffering pause is impossible, because that > adds another 10% CPU, reaching total of over 90%. > > Recording with PVR-250, 720x576, 7000/8000 bps. > > Hardware: Celeron 1.3 GHz, 512 MB. > > Hard disk DMA is on. > > Fecora Core 2, Kernel 2.6.9, Myth 0.16. > > I was once using a P-III/866 in another machine, that had no problems > with the same settings (resolution, bitrate), playing at 50% CPU total. > > Any hints? > > Thanks! > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users