<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23/08/2008, at 12:35 PM, Graeme Woollett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Got my 5600+ in last night, approx 87% CPU on 1 core approx 50% idle on <br>the other at 720p.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Odd. I'd expect very little load on the second core. What is mythfrontend using under "top" and what processes are second and third in CPU use.</div><div><br></div><div>I was hoping for a bit under 87% load as well, more 70-75% given the speed bump over a 3600 X2.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>With the current release from Paul's site Live TV is very watchable, but <br>trying to watch a recording from the menu crashes the frontend everytime.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not having that issue. I set a series of programs to record last night on the test rig. Three off a single DVB-T tuner and three off a single DVB-S tuner. Recorded all six programs simultaneously so the backend is fairly robust. The frontend crashes I'm getting are usually during live tv.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>My experience with stability is that code has come a long way, i.e it <br>works, but much more work needs to be done to make it stable.<br><br>The frontend typically seg faults with either h264 or ac3audio errors.<br><br>I do need a higher gain antenna as I can scan the TV3 multiplex, but get <br>no lock when I try to watch something.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Shame</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I get the feeling that this CPU won't quite be up to watching TV3 1080i <br>without some fiddling with the source code.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Might be borderline. Can you post the CPU identifier or confirm if it is a 65W part.</div><div><br></div><div>Also how much Ram have you got in the box.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Gone are the days when an AMD CPU got more work done per clock cycle <br>than an Intel CPU...<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Steve</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>