[vdr] Re: Hardware Question

[Markus Kalb <Markus.Kalb@gmx.net>]

On 10 Jun 2002 20:12:37 +0200
Dariush Forouher <dariush@forouher.de> wrote:

> Am Mon, 2002-06-10 um 19.29 schrieb Markus Kalb:
> > 2) but: i now have a 97% cpu usage from the vdr process and 
> > 	as you told be the dvb card would do all the decoding 
> > 	i'm a little curious if i made a config error and 
> > 	should recompile to get less cp usage. 
> The mpeg decoder chip can only decode mpeg1/2. That's the reason why
> mplayer recodes the divx video to mpeg2. And this realtime divx
> decoding and mpeg2 encoding takes much of cpu time. Use always the
> latest release of mplayer. There has been much improvments made in
> April.

i have the newest mplayer and also there is no divx recoding as i'm
playing vcd's! DivX wiht my 300 K6-2 is a no go ! 

ciao markus 


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