[mythtv-users] Playback problems in iPlayer HD playback

[Raymond Wagner]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:55:37 +0100, John Reid <johnbaronreid at netscape.net>
wrote:
> On 19/07/11 15:47, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:23:19 +0100, John
Reid<johnbaronreid at netscape.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On 19/07/11 13:04, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:12:55 +0100, John
>> Reid<johnbaronreid at netscape.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> When I'm viewing standard iPlayer content in the browser, top
reports
>>>>> about 70% CPU usage. For HD content it reports about 150%. Does this
>>>>> mean I'm not using the Intel integrated on-board graphics?
>>>> Prior to 0.25, MythTV does not use the onboard video decoding on
Intel
>>>> hardware. However, the chip in your processor does have sufficient
>> power
>>>> to
>>>> run the OpenGL video renderer, and you should be running that rather
>> than
>>>> the default Xv.
>>>>
>>> That sounds useful, I'm not 100% sure what to do though. Is Xv what X
>>> uses by default? I have opengl installed. You're saying it doesn't
seem
>>> to be using it?
>> Xv is what MythTV uses by default.  However in this case, MythTV is
>> irrelevant.  iPlayer is an external application, the Adobe flash
player,
>> which is simply exceedingly inefficient.  MythTV has no control over
the
>> matter.
> OK thanks for your help. Sorry to be slightly off-topic. I guess that 
> does mean that when my DVB-T2 USB stick arrives I might have a chance of

> watching the shows it records.

Using the MythTV internal player (or any other properly written video
player), you should not have any problem playing DVB-T2 content on that
processor.