Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-02-08 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:31:13PM -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: > were dropped (if any)? > - What's a good way to determine cpu "idleness" during the test? I have been considering that mythcommflag might be a good benchmark to test systems. We would put out a couple of standard videos, a few minute

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Bartlow
I believe the way this should work would be to playback the video as fast as possible. As soon as one frame is finished decoding, decode the next one. Take a time for each frame and then make sure that no frame takes longer than (1 / FPS) seconds to decode. If no frame takes longer than that

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Leppert
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:02:21 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What we care about is the following though: > > a) Is there enough spare capacity so that when minor system tasks >take place, they don't make video skip. > > b) Is there enough capacity to do that

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-29 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:02:57PM -0500, James Armstrong wrote: > Brad Templeton wrote: > > I am getting the following while watching HD 1080i on CBS: 38% User, > 2.2% System and 56.1% Idle > >.3% cpu usage for mythfrontend >mythbackend on another computer >12% for X >.3

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-29 Thread Kyle Rose
Your problem is this: > ... nVidia FX 6600, ... Evidently the latest released driver (66.93) doesn't properly support XVideo on the 6600's. Many complaints about this over at the nvnews.net forum. Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-29 Thread James Armstrong
Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:46:08PM -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: When watching livetv on ABC (HD 720p), I end up with 0% idle using top 72% cpu usage for mythfrontend 18% cpu for mythbackend 6% for X 1% for lirc_dev <1% for top and others When watching livetv

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Leppert
Brad, My memory bandwidth is 779 MB/s (according to memtest). I have 512MB of RAM, but this is probably pretty old memory (PC2100, I think). Do you think this is the problem? Does anyone have any comparison they can provide in terms of their performance with HDTV and an Athlon XP 3200+ (or even

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Leppert
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:20:00 -0500, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone let me know how to commet out the parameters, and where > exactly to do it? I just had to reinstall FC2 and the kernel Im using > is 2.6.10, so Ive not been using it. Thanks for any help. > There

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-28 Thread Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
Paul Leppert wrote: Brad, On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:45:38 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snipped- Surprised to see much CPU in the back end, that I don't normally see when it's recording. All it has to do is demux the atsc stream and write to disk. Have not tried the 1.6 drive

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Leppert
Brad, On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:45:38 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snipped- > Surprised to see much CPU in the back end, that I don't normally see > when it's recording. All it has to do is demux the atsc stream and write > to disk. Have not tried the 1.6 drivers, they reporte

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Isely
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Brad Templeton wrote: > Surprised to see much CPU in the back end, that I don't normally see > when it's recording. All it has to do is demux the atsc stream and write > to disk. Have not tried the 1.6 drivers, they reported it doesn't work > well on 2.6.10 in the release n

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-28 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:46:08PM -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: > When watching livetv on ABC (HD 720p), I end up with 0% idle using top > 72% cpu usage for mythfrontend > 18% cpu for mythbackend > 6% for X > 1% for lirc_dev > <1% for top and others > > When watching livetv on

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Leppert
Ok, I just updated my CPU from an Athlon XP 2000+ to an 3200+ and have some questions about performance with HDTV. First, my mythtv specs: Athlon XP 3200+ with 512Mb RAM, nVidia FX 6600, Nforce onboard LAN, SB Audigy 2 sound card, HD-3000 and PVR-250. /proc/cpuinfo confirms the 3200+ setting and

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-24 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:04:24PM -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: > Blammo, > - How are HDTV channels set up? Using zap2it and an HDTV lineup > resulted in a mix of NTSC and ATSC channels with incorrect freqid for > the digital channels (e.g., in Chicago, Channel 7 (ABC) is actually > broadcasting on 5

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-24 Thread Blammo [doh]
Great list of questions. Hopefully we can get some answers to these, and I"ll happily collate them into the master. -blam On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:04:24 -0600, Paul Leppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blammo, > > How about questions related to HDTV setup in mythtv? > > - How are HDTV channels

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Leppert
Blammo, How about questions related to HDTV setup in mythtv? - How are HDTV channels set up? Using zap2it and an HDTV lineup resulted in a mix of NTSC and ATSC channels with incorrect freqid for the digital channels (e.g., in Chicago, Channel 7 (ABC) is actually broadcasting on 52). How is this

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-18 Thread Duckland
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:21 -0700, Blammo [doh] wrote: > (thanks all for both your posted and offline feedback. Per > suggestions, I'm going to try to turn this into a FAQ. I'm not much of > a writer, so sorry in advance. Please reply with anything to have to > fill in the gaps, add catagories, etc

[mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-18 Thread Blammo [doh]
(thanks all for both your posted and offline feedback. Per suggestions, I'm going to try to turn this into a FAQ. I'm not much of a writer, so sorry in advance. Please reply with anything to have to fill in the gaps, add catagories, etc. I'll try to keep this update, and maybe find a Web home for i