[mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 05 September 2003 08:23 pm, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> >I still get it with VeXP, but could you try current CVS myth?  I believe
> > I've fixed the problem.  It's completely gone here, at least.  The OSD
> > should look quite a bit nicer, too, though still B&W.
>
> Works like a charm! No problems whatsoever.
> And the OSD looks fine to me ;-)

Great, glad for the confirmation that it works on more than just my box.  
Wasn't too difficult a problem, just me assuming that the driver wasn't 
braindead and had some small amounts of internal locking.

> Although I now get a slight stutter when the OSD pops up and fades away
> (cpu jumps to 40% for a sec), but nothing major.

I'm probably going to add an outside toggle for fading.  It's currently easy 
to change in the theme, but it does add to the CPU usage of the OSD now that 
I've rewritten things (before, it'd render the OSD every single frame, now it 
only does it when things change, so during fading, that's every frame).

> PS: Isaac, did you ever had any problems with your Nehemiah-based system
> not wanting to boot if you didn't have a monitor attached (only TV out
> for example)? Some say it's some kind of grounding problem but I haven't
> found a solution yet that worked for me. It's the last thing that
> prevents me from moving my MythTV system off my "workbench" and into my
> HT set.

Never seen that.  The nehemiah box was my production system and only hooked up 
to the tv until I took it away and put it in my office to work on the 
hardware decoder.  Never had a problem like that.

Isaac