[mythtv-users] Stuttering when watching DVD with subtitles

[Christian Güdel]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 12:15 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Christian Güdel wrote:
> 
> > *up*
> >
> > nobody ever experienced this problem?
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 09:46 +0100, me at blaue0.net wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> my frontend seems to have a strange problem: If I turn on  
> >> subtitles in
> >> a DVD, every time a new subtitles must be rendered it'll lose some
> >> frames. I doubt that this is hardware related, as it works with
> >> mplayer. Anyway, here's my hardware:
> >>
> >> AMD AthlonXP 1800+
> >> 512 MB RAM
> >> Shuttle Motherboard
> >> 32 MB CF card
> >>
> >> If I ssh into the box while watching I can see that there is about
> >> 15-20% idle when subtitles are rendered, so it is definitly not a
> >> cpupower-problem. But I don't have any other ideas. Maybe someone  
> >> else
> >> has a useful hint for me...
> >>
> >> Christian
> 
> 
> I'd guess you are in fact running out of CPU, you don't have a lot to  
> start with.
> 
> If your load numbers come from top remember that they are averages  
> over a fairly long period of time (as CPUs think) and you are almost  
> certainly hitting peaks way over that.

Well, ok then. Do you think I'd have more luck with a Intel Celeron M
1.5 Ghz cpu?