[vdr] Xine and CPU Usage

[Niko Mikkila]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:08:21 -0600
Chad Flynt <hoochster at sofnet.com> wrote:

> Thank you much for your reply, I did do a vanilla 2.6.16-rc1 kernel and 
> as far as I know selected all the proper agp stuff for my board but ya 
> know I can easily make a mistake, only reason I didn't do 64bit kernel 
> etc is cuz didn't know if all of VDR and plugins etc were fully 
> supported in 64 bit, haven't really kept up with it since I wasn't 
> running VDR with it! :)  But I will give it a go!  And as far as X goes, 
> if I can find a good Video Conferencing product for X I would LOVE to 
> combine that with VDR or if had to be run in a diff window for the 
> purpose, that is how my parents see their grandkids, and one of the only 
> reasons I still have a Winblows box still around!  But I would guess 
> running X would definately give me an advantage to finding such a 
> thing.  Will check it out, running Matrox G550 but do have some NVIDIA 
> cards around have some friends that keep bugging me about XVMC just 
> haven't gotten around to it due to refusing to install X! :)  But will 
> try.  Thanks again for all the tips, will report back any of my findings.
> 

Actually I have a _very_ similar situation with Matrox G450 and an
Athlon64 2800+ on Via K8T800 Pro chipset. I use X.org, but the G450
seems to be awfully slow and I can't even display 720p properly. I
always thought the problem was that the card just wasn't fast enough (I
didn't really test HDTV on my earlier system), but your experience on a
slower system shows that there must be something else going on. I use a
completely 64-bit system and I have set the Matrox X drivers to use AGP
4x, but that doesn't help much. Even mga_vid with MPlayer causes about as
high CPU usage as Xv output. This seems like some sort of hardware
incompatibility, or otherwise bad AGP support for the Via K8T800 -
Matrox Gxxx combination. I've been troubled by this for some time, so
please tell if you find any solution :)

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Niko Mikkilä