[mythtv-users] Machine idle at frontend menu and see 60% cpuusage due to 9959

[Raphael Pooser]

Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 6/4/06, Greg Grotsky <spikeygg at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 6/3/06, James Buckley <james at logicland.co.uk> wrote:
>>     
>>> Think it's under 'appearance', from the main settings menu, first page
>>>
>>>       
>>  Yup, this worked like a charm!  Thanks guys!  So... anyone know what the
>> benefit is to using Qt instead of OpenGL?  I noticed that the OpenGL makes
>> the menus fade in and out, and since it doesn't tie up the CPU the menus are
>> much more snappy, seems better than using the Qt method.
>>     
>
> QT is for machines that don't have OpenGL support (Like i810 and
> IVTV-FB). If you don't have OpenGL, then the OpenGL renderer isn't
> going to work (Or will use MESA and try and render the whole thing in
> software, which would be slower than the QT system).
>   
So, is OpenGL rendering only available for 0.19 and up, or have I been 
missing something in 0.18.1...?  I didn't see any options to change from 
QT to OGL in 0.18, but would like to do it if possible.
Raphael