In 45ACF11B.7010600@kniivila.com, Kartsa wrote:
I have Fedora Core 6 and vdr installed using yum. The problem is that it takes all the cpu time after boot and I have to restart vdr to make it run properly. I have vdr-1.4.4 with softdevice-0.3.1 and subtitles-0.4.0. My cpu is PIII 550MHz and I use softdevice with Matrox G400 (and DirectFB). After restarting vdr it works fine but that is not very convenient :) I've tried changing the point when vdr starts by modifying the init scripts chkconfig values.
After restarting vdr cpu load is about 60%.
Any hints? I.e. how/when should matroxfb kernel module be loaded? Now I load it in rc.modules.
You could try the xine output plugin with df_xine instead. It's better at A/V sync than softdevice IME, and you can turn the video on and off to save power, or to watch something else, eg a DVD, while VDR is still running in the background for recording etc. Use http://boxstar.sourceforge.net to tie it all together all under the control of one remote.