[mythtv-users] pic bad/channels off

mOjO mOjOspam at thegeekclub.net
Fri Jun 6 23:11:41 EDT 2003


Pierre-Olivier Bouchard wrote:

> mOjO wrote:
>
>> i would think an Athlon XP 1700 would be adequate to handle myth... 
>> maybe SuSe 8.2 is just too bloated or i've FUBAR'd it good... im 
>> gonna mess with it a little more then maybe try Gentoo, if all else 
>> fails its going back to WinXP [insert sinister music here] because 
>> the main purpose of that box is to watch DivX movies and play mp3s in 
>> my living room, i just thought it would also make a nice capping 
>> machine.
>
>
> An Athlon XP 1700+ is more than enough if you only have one tuner, if 
> you tweak the recording settings, and you remove all the unused 
> processes/daemons in your system. I can do 320x480 Mpeg-4 livetv with 
> mp3 (quality 7) on my Celeron 1.1Ghz, you could try starting from that 
> and slowly upping resolution, or quality, until you get something 
> acceptable.
>
hmm.. i was messing with the default codec instead of mpeg4.. what does 
everyone prefer?  I had just assumed the best choice was the default.. 
cpu usage was fine at that res (320x480) but the picture was bad and so 
was the sound, other resolutions just kicked up the cpu too high... 
although i noted someones comments here about a crappy tv signal getting 
even worse when run through livetv and the cpu usage going up more 
because of it.  My signal looks fine on the tv and they ran a new line 
into my cable box when i got my cable modem though so that shouldnt be 
it.  I went ahead and blanked that machine (probably much to the chagrin 
of the kind folk that helped me get it running on Suse) and am in the 
process of setting up Gentoo which has a lot fewer of those unneeded 
services and i'm going to compare results (mostly im just curious about 
that distro). Probably it will be better this time around, but we shall 
see.  Any caveats to be aware of that arent on the how-to with a Gentoo 
install?



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