[mythtv-users] frontend hardware - any reason not to use ion?

Johnny Walker johnnyjboss at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 17:03:12 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>
>
> Johnny Walker wrote:
>> Any tips on how to determine what ram it takes? I usually use pc-info
>> on my friends windows boxes.
>
> Coming in late to this thread, but the stock 1GB on my Revo seems to be plenty:
>
> $ free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        897120     470640     426480          0      83412     153648
> -/+ buffers/cache:     233580     663540
> Swap:      2048276          0    2048276
>
> Looks like 128MB is assigned to the video. Myth uses only about half the
> remaining memory.

I've got 256 (the most it will allow me currently) allocated and I
have the video issues I described playing back 720p (HDPVR) on my LCD
set at 1280x720 at 50hz. I'm on VDPAU SLIM with Advanced 1 and Temporal 2
interlacers chosen.


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