Hi, I´ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, P4@553Mhz, 512Megs of RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically.
Everthing works fine but I see cpu utilization in the region of 90% (this is with SD, I have no delusions about HD channels on this hardware)
At the moment it is connected to a monitor, so I have a feeling it goes for the maximum resolution. Eventually it will be connected to an old 28 inches TV (CRT not LCD) with an adaptor VGA to RCA
Any tips on how I could speed things up? Xine settings? Xorg settings? vdr settings? xv or opengl?
On 21 August 2010 22:41, martinez@embl.de wrote:
I´ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, P4@553Mhz, 512Megs of RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically.
Everthing works fine but I see cpu utilization in the region of 90%
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Any tips on how I could speed things up? Xine settings? Xorg settings? vdr settings? xv or opengl?
Try to verify if colour conversion is actually done by the hardware graphics card (through Xv), and not in software. Running on a 533MHz processor could be stretching things though, especially for a P4.
Hi, Some intel cards supports afaik xvmc as well. Check if this is available for your card and use it. That way some parts of the mpeg stuff will be decoded by the gpu.
If this isn't available for your card, use xv. HTH. halim
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:41:32 +0200 martinez@embl.de wrote:
I´ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, P4@553Mhz, 512Megs of RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically.
Do you mean P3 or have you mistyped the clock speed? The slowest P4 was about 1400MHz, I thought. Surely one wouldn't be underclocked by such a huge factor.
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