[mythtv-users] HD success!

[Yan Seiner]

William Munson napsal(a):
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>   
>> I have 3 front ends in my system; one is based on an Athlon XP 2000+, 
>> one is based on an Athlon 64 3200+, and one is based on an Intel PIII 
>> (?) 1.4 GHz CPU with crappy i180 video.
>>
>> The last one has not a chance of handling HD, but the Athlon XP 2000+ 
>> does quite well.  There is some chattering with liveTV, but recorded 
>> shows work well and CPU usage is around 65%.  Since we don't want live 
>> TV anyway, I really don't care.  I typically take the Watch TV option 
>> out of the menu altogether.
>>   
>>     
> Would you mind passing along the version of the nvidia drivers you have 
> loaded on your Athlon XP system. I am having stability issues with a 
> 2200+ and think its related to the video driver I have installed.
>   
OK, here's the setup:

Mobo:  *KuDoZ 7X    <http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/Products/kudoz7x.htm>
CPU: cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1666.489
cache size      : 256 KB

nvidia driver: 

(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9755
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver

MythTV video card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

And finally the kernel:
athena:/var/log# uname -a
Linux athena 2.6.19.2 #2 Wed Jan 17 21:10:48 PST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

And top while playing back a HD recording:

top - 18:12:40 up 13 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.68, 0.66, 0.33
Tasks:  82 total,   2 running,  80 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 48.3%us, 13.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 32.0%id,  0.7%wa,  2.3%hi,  3.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    776308k total,   767836k used,     8472k free,   116492k buffers
Swap:  1510068k total,        0k used,  1510068k free,   247220k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                             
 6407 mythtv    15   0  282m 110m  26m S 51.9 14.5   0:50.45 mythfrontend                                         
 6234 root      15   0 94208  82m 4636 S 14.0 10.8   0:11.03 Xorg

XvMC is enabled with kernel deint.

--Yan
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