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I have a dedicated VDR box running vdr-xine with P4 2.4GHz and Radeon 9200.
Stability is not currently a problem (1.3.27) - since spring the system has been easily up more than a day :) It has stayed up without problems for at least a week, but due to my usage of nvram-wakeup, I have no statistics of longer uptime.
The reason why a separate xine is nice is that currently the setup eats up all the CPU cycles. [...]
Hmm? I'm seeing around 30% CPU usage with gxine (2GHz Athlon, Radeon 9200, 266MHz bus, AGP 4x).
Btw. if someone has any hints on how to reduce used cpu cycles, they are warmly welcome. And yes, I use the fglrx driver - without that the picture is jerky.
Something's evidently not right with your setup. Are you using Xv? Have you tried the native R200 support in a recent 2.6 kernel and X?
A patch which recently went into xine-lib CVS HEAD helps somewhat (it optimises the video buffer allocation somewhat, which affects things like software deinterlacing).