[mythtv-users] VDPAU results

[Calvin Harrigan]

I'm testing VDPAU WITH a G96(9500gt) gpu right now,  and it's working 
fine.  Before it was using about 50% cpu for mythfrontend and about 15% 
for X with bob 2x while playing 1080i content on a x2 3800.  After 
setting up for vpdau I got about 40% for mythfrontend and 0 for X. 
Should mention that initially I didn't think anything much changed 
because I was still getting 40% on mythfrontend but X had dropped to 
zero.  Then I realized that the cpu was now running at 1 ghz as opposed 
to 2 GHz.  Needless to say 40% overall of 1 ghz is a lot less than 
60-65% overall of 2ghz.  I still think the cpu usage is a bit high 
compared to what others have reported.  I have tested the setup with the 
cpu at full speed, then the usage is in the upper 20s %.  I think it's 
something I missing though, because if I use the internal player in 
mythvideo to play back high bitrate files like the infamous 13.5 mpg it 
only uses about 5-8% of the 1ghz.  I was not able to play this file 
before at all, it would pause every 2-3 seconds for about a second using 
100% cpu.  Any ideas on why mythfrontend seems to be using that much cpu 
to playback HD files recorded from a HDHR?  Everything else seems to be 
working fine, haven't had any issues/faults for the 10 or so hrs of 
watching HD tv programming over the last few days  I'm using the 
backported vdpau support provided by Mr. Avenard (Thanks guy!). The 
de-interlacing is awesome by the way, advanced hw 2x looks great.

Thanks