[mythtv-users] OSD slow with hardware decoding?
Tako Schotanus
quintesse at palacio-cristal.com
Tue Dec 2 08:52:45 EST 2003
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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
> Sent: dinsdag 2 december 2003 3:34
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OSD slow with hardware decoding?
>
>
> On Monday 01 December 2003 07:48 pm, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > I have finally got hardware mpeg2 decoding (CLE266) working
> with my EPIA
> > M10000 box and, for the most part, it works pretty well. It
> cuts down CPU
> > usage to 20-30% and allows me to watch higher resolutions
> and higher
> > bitrates. The weird thing is that any OSD makes the video
> pause and stutter
> >
> something terrible, especially when it's fading away.
> >
> > The OSD works much better using software decoding even
> though much less CPU
> > is
> available. With 70-80% CPU available using hardware decoding does
> > anyone have any ideas why the OSD suffers so badly? Is it a
> buggy driver or
> > just the nature of the beast?
>
> I just figured that the cle266 didn't like being updated very
> often with new
> OSD frames and never really looked into it. As I use a
> pvr-350 in my epia-m
> box now, I doubt I'll be looking into it in the future.
Any way to tell myth to just turn it on/off without any fading?
(of course it's possible ;-), but is there currently an option for it or
is that something that would have to be implemented?)
-Tako
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