[mythtv-users] cpu usage question / recording settingrecommendations

[Per Åge Sørvik]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

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>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Per Åge Sørvik
>>Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:57 AM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] cpu usage question / recording
>>settingrecommendations
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>>Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>I've got an Athlon XP 1600+, and I can just about handle LiveTV@ 480x480,
>>>MPEG-4 at 2200bps, MP3 quality 7.
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>>Looks like something is wrong with your setup, IMO. I've also got an XP
>>1600+, and i can watch Live TV with MPEG4/3600bps, 512x480, MP3 q 6 with
>>50% idle time. No deinterlacing, jitter compensation, HQ. Compiled with
>>-march=athlon
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>Interesting... I haven't played with my encoding parameters in a while, and
>it does seem like certain things have become more efficient in the last
>couple of months.  Maybe it's time to revisit my settings.  Just curious,
>what's your audio setup?  btaudio or patch cable?  I'm wondering if that has
>any effect on things, like available PCI bandwidth... I'm grasping at
>straws, but maybe extracting both audio & video from the bt878 card over the
>PCI bus is a little too much... possibly I need to tweak my PCI latency
>setting in BIOS?  Right now I can't seem to set my audio quality lower than
>7 or I get stuttering, yet I seem to recall being able to do '3' before I
>set up btaudio... but that of course would have nothing to do with PCI
>bandwidth, as the compression occurs *after* the audio is extracted...
>*sigh* I guess I'll just mess around and see what result I get.  Of course,
>my wife will kill me if I break our Myth setup...
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>I suppose the other thing it could be is my PC133 SDRAM... maybe it's time
>to get some better RAM... luckily my mobo takes either SDRAM or DDR RAM.
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>Does anyone more knowledgeable care to comment?
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I've used both a patch cable & btaudio, without it making much of a 
difference, currently using btaudio. But I switched from PC133 SDRAM to 
DDR, which, as I recall, made quite a difference. And I'm also running 
an AGP vidcard, not an integrated solution. Haven't really tweaked the 
hardware at all, it's on of the cheapest motherboards i could find, but 
i put in two HDDs, using one for the live TV buffer / recording, and 
nothing else.

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