--- Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 14, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Örn Einar Hansen wrote: > > > Şann Sunnudagur 15 maí 2005 01:24 skrifaği Michael > Carland: > >> Howdy. > >> > >> I'm running .18 with XvMC (EPIA), mpeg2 all the > way through. When I > >> watch live TV, cpu usage is about 15-20%, and all > is well. Live TV in > >> the EPG and prerecorded TV is the same. > >> > >> But when I am seeing a video preview under Watch > Recordings, cpu is > >> about 95%, and the preview is very skittery. I > assume this is because > >> the preview video is not using XvMC? > >> > >> Is this true? Is there another solution? If it is > true, is there a > >> technical reason the preview doesn't use XvMC, or > has it just not been > >> done yet, and is something I could look into > fixing? > >> > > Did you remember to modify the "mplayer" > playback command, to > > include '-vo > > xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc" ? > > I may be misunderstanding what you are suggesting, > but I think you are > referring to MythVideo video playback, which is > working fine for me. I > am talking about the small preview window of the > recorded programs. > Even here, the actual playback is fine, it is only > the preview that > chews through cpu and looks poor. Media > Library->Watch Recordings. > > Turning on "CPU friendly preview of recordings" > helps, as it then only > uses 60% cpu. But since all other display of video > only uses 20%, and > this is the only display that has tearing and uses > 95% (or 60%) cpu, > I'm thinking the preview is not using XvMC like the > others. > > -Michael I'm not one of the dev guys, just a (l)user but it seems to me that what you are describing is perfectly natural. The main screen is displaying the recorded OSD and generating a preview which it has to scale down to fit in a small size, the CPU load is more because it is doing more things at the same time.
Howard
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