[mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance

rwk at americom.com rwk at americom.com
Wed Sep 3 09:26:28 EDT 2003


Hmmm...  Maybe I should wait for your success.

Are you running:

. EPIA-M10000 Nehemiah
. RH9 (kernel 2.4.21)
. On-board TV-out
. New RH9 via drivers (i.e. ./CLEXF40030/RedHat/9.0/c3/libddmpeg.so from file: CLEXF40030-bin.zip)

Does anyone else have this working?

Dick

> Maybe I have the same GUI problem. Since upgrading to those newer VIA
> display drivers the mythfrontend gui messes up completely any time it
> tries to display a tree. The gui basically becomes unusable afterwards
> because now none of the screens will paint correctly.
> 
> I'm still thinking about what would be the best way to try and solve
> this. Getting the latest version of X from CVS for example.
> 
> -Tako
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of and
> > Sent: woensdag 3 september 2003 6:17
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance
> > 
> > 
> > I now have myth more or less working and the first report was vastly 
> > optimistic.
> > Mplayer still looks great with full size and stream, but the video in 
> > myth has to be much smaller *480x480) for my m10k to handle it!!
> > 
> > My screen graphics is also completely screwed up. Screens 
> > don't redraw 
> > and some graphics don't show up or move when a button is 
> > pressed...etc. 
> > Might be the video driver, but it's pretty wiesrd and I have no idea 
> > how to fix it. I'm going to try to switch to another video drivers 
> > (vesa generic), but if some one have a suggestions or recommendation 
> > for my rh9-epiam10k system I'd greatly appreciate it.
> > 
> > thanks
> > anders
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry about the confusion.
> > On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:02 AM, and wrote:
> > 
> > > I haven't fully installed mythtv 0.11 yet (using atrms from 
> > berlin and 
> > > I can't get the lirc to install/compile), but tried it out with 
> > > mplayer and there was absolutely smooth video.
> > >
> > > I also originally tried on debian with the regular cvs xfree86-4.3 
> > > drivers and had to settle for the via (with lots of mpeg and other 
> > > undeclared and other errors) and had to settle for lower rez and 
> > > birate, but even then I had bad sound unless I timeshifted 
> > the content 
> > > a little...The xfree drivers are still a little buggy 
> > acording to vias 
> > > opensource reprasentative and only provides 2d accl with 
> > out the mpeg 
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > Too bad  the binary drivers are not available for debian. 
> > I'm having a 
> > > hard time adjusting to redhat world... ;-)
> > >
> > > rgds
> > > anedrs
> > >
> > > On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 02:34 AM, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> You got 16m/8m at 720x480 running with Myth Live TV?
> > >> That would be seriously cool because I'm currently using something 
> > >> like
> > >> 5m/4m at 460x576 to get stutter free video.
> > >>
> > >> But I'm not using those binary drivers you mention but the drivers 
> > >> that
> > >> came with the CVS version of XFree86 some months ago.
> > >>
> > >> Did you have to do anything special to get those drivers to work?
> > >> (Recompile X like I had to do for example) The reason I ask is that
> > >> previous binary drivers I had encountered all seemed to use
> > >> functionality/API from X that was not included in the 
> > standard RedHat 
> > >> 9
> > >> version.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>  -Tako
> > >>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > >>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of and
> > >>> Sent: vrijdag 29 augustus 2003 9:12
> > >>> To: Discussion about mythtv
> > >>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Are you using redhat 9?
> > >>> If you are, there are binary video and accl mpeg drivers 
> > available at
> > >>> viaarena.com that really helps. I've been playing around with
> > >>> it today
> > >>> and even with the 16m/8m stream at 720x480 from my pvr250 I
> > >>> didn't see
> > >>> any problems.
> > >>> I used to be running debian where there are no binary drivers
> > >>> avaliable
> > >>> for the cle266 and could therefore not take advantage of 
> > the hardware
> > >>> accl....at least that is what I think is making the big 
> > difference on
> > >>> my m10k.
> > >>>
> > >>> anders
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:21 PM, rwk at americom.com wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Just to see if I could tell the difference, I set my record
> > >>> resolution
> > >>>> from 480x480 to 720x480.  However, when I started watching I was
> > >>>> surprised to find that my 1Gh Nehemiah EPIA processor
> > >>> couldn't handle
> > >>>> it.  It sputtered every few seconds.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I ran a top from another machine and indeed observed that
> > >>> mythfrontend
> > >>>> was using 99% of the cpu.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> My EPIA machine is connected to a TV through the onboard
> > >>> S-Video out.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> As a comparison I tried the same thing on my Athlon 2200+
> > >>> running a ATI
> > >>>> Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY video card.  I was again
> > >>> surprised to see
> > >>>> that mythfrontend was using less than 0.1% of the CPU and X
> > >>> was using
> > >>>> about 10%.  Needless to say it plays without missing a beat.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> What is it about the EPIA (hardware or drivers) which 
> > makes it soooo
> > >>>> much slower than the Athlon system?  The difference is CPU
> > >>> power is not
> > >>>> enough to explain it.  Is it the video drivers?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> And why is all the processing in mythfrontend on the EPIA
> > >>> box, and in X
> > >>>> on the Athlon?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks for any and all opinions!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Dick
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