[mythtv-users] Celeron processors with MythTV

[Michael Peay]

Joe-
They're the atrpms packages (.11 dist). I haven't tried the high 
quality settings but will do a little live tv tests to get a feel for 
performance and report back.

   --Mike

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 09:54 PM, Joe Byrne wrote:

> I saw the same article and based my decision partly on it.
>  
> When I'm recording off my Leadtek card at 320x480 MPEG4 with both high 
> quality settings, top shows mythbackend at 90% utilized.
>  
> Any ideas what the perf issue could be?  Michael--are you running from 
> prepackaged binaries?
>  
> JB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Snyder
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Celeron processors with MythTV
>
> There's a nice article on Tom's Hardware Guide about the Celeron 2.0 
> (the fastest when the article was written).  They hated it for 3D 
> games because the performance was so far behind the same-cost Athlons, 
> but found that video and audio processing is dominated by clock speed 
> and therefore the Celerons did quite well.  The bottom line is that 
> you should be fine, and the same-speed Pentium should be significantly 
> but not hugely better.
>
> Michael Peay <mythtv at peay.us> wrote:
>
> You probably have some other performance issue. I just built a pundit
> with a 2.4GHz Celeron. When recording 480x480 MPEG4 with increased
> quality settings from default AND playback of pre-recorded show I have
> 55-60% idle. I also have to BT tuners and can record both without
> noticed (yet) drops. I haven't tried playing a show while recording
> two, but should be able to since playback only takes 3-5% CPU.
>
> --Mike