Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:42 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 08:12, Ted Roche wrote:
> 
> > top is showing mythfrontend.re at ~95% CPU pretty consistently
> 
> That sounds like CPU-based decoding.  The koolu is an AMD Geode,  
> which has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, IIRC.

Ooh, didn't know that...

> To be successful, you'll have to:
>    make sure the shows are encoded in a flavor of MPEG-2 that Geode  
> understands ("the best thing about standards are there are so many  
> sub-parts to optionally implement", to bludgeon a phrase)
>    make sure mythbackend is handing mythfrontend the file unmolested  
> (I assume this is default, Jarod can probably confirm)

Consider it confirmed. :)

>    make sure your X/DRI/mplayer stack supports and is configured to  
> pass the data through to the MPEG-2 hardware decoder
> 
> And then you should see, I'm guessing, 20% CPU or so. If I were Koolu  
> I'd have this all pre-configured ... if it's well known that you can  
> apt-get install mythtv to get a working SD frontend, it ought to  
> double their sales!  Maybe *they'd* want to figure this out for you.

Most mpeg2 encoders are utilized under mythtv by enabling XvMC video
decoding, so in theory, simply enabling XvMC output should help...



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Jarod Wilson
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