[mythtv-users] How well does MythTV use threads?

[Janne Grunau]

On Monday 16 April 2007 19:16:47 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/16/2007 12:39 PM, Janne Grunau wrote:
> > On Monday 16 April 2007 18:28:55 David Campbell wrote:
> >> Not convinced by that.  Try decoding H246 on a single core front
> >> end
> >>
> >> :(
> >
> > That doesn't make a big difference. The main decoding work is done
> > in a single thread.
>
> Which can take 100% of a core on a multi-core system while still
> allowing X and other processes to execute on the other core...

If the system is only a frontend , the other core has not much to do. X 
and the nvidia kernel driver take less than 10% for H.264 1080p 
displaying.

Janne