[mythtv-users] performace (bt878, athlon xp 2400, radeon 9200)

[Jared Luxenberg]

Michael:

You can encode 2 shows and watch 1 without a problem?  Are you using MPEG4?  On my Athlon 1800+ I can barely watch LiveTV (ie encode 1 show and watch it at the same time) when using MPEG4 (granted I am using the kerneldeint playback filter, I will do some tests without that filter and see how much processing time that's taking.)

- Jared 

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Michael D. Cencula
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:07 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] performace (bt878, athlon xp 2400, radeon
9200)


On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:50 pm, manu wrote:
> Le 03.03.2004 21:06:56, Adam Felson a écrit :
> > I'm gettin poor performance on with a bt878 dumb capture card, athlon
> > xp
> > 2400 and radeon 9200;  video looks choppy, probably running 5-10
> > frames/second.  The radeon is running at vga resolution.  I think
> > capture is also running at 640x400.
> >
> > Is lack of good XV support on the radeon my problem?
> > Can I capture/playback without compression?
>
> I am running the same card here with xp2000 and radeon 9200 with no
> problem (and I use the monitor so the resolution is 1024x768 IIRC).
> My distro is MDK 9.2 (XFree 4.3) and XV is doing well (LiveTv with good
> quality is around 75% CPU, I use MPEG4).
> Bye
> Manu

Even that seems rather slow.  I've got an XP2400 Fedora C1, TV out on Matrox 
G400, and I can almost encode 3 shows simultaneously while watching 1.  I get 
occasional hiccups in the video playback.  Recording 2 shows while watching 1 
gives around 75% CPU usage with no hiccups at all.  Encoding with Hauppaauge 
401 cards mpeg4 480x480, btaudio, and default settings all around.