[mythtv-users] XvMC with Nvidia 7676 no change in CPU usage?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 17:39:59 UTC 2006


On 3/11/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > I'm playing around with XvMC on my desktop/server since it has a
> > FX5200 and I'm thinking of using it as a frontend for my bedroom. I've
> > got Myth and mplayer compiled with XvMC support and both look like
> > they're using xvmc when I enable them to, but what I don't see is any
> > reduction in CPU usage with either.
> > I'm running X as root to make sure I have full privileges as I test.
> > I'm testing mostly with HD content since SD content uses so little CPU
> > on my machine to begin with.
> >
> If you have a greyscale OSD, then you are using XvMC.  If your OSD is
> color, you're not.  XvMC is selected in the playback settings for TV
> where you pick your MPEG decoder (Standard, libmpeg2, XvMC, etc.).
>
> Kevin

Ok, OSD is greyscale, so XvMC is on, and I'm noticing lots of
stuttering when I bring up an OSD. But I'm still not seeing much, if
any, of a reduction in CPU usage on playback though. Is there a way to
"tune" xvmc or something?

--
Steve


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