<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 9:40 PM, graeme wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Ok I gave my aerial twitch and can now get TV3<br><br>cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq<br>2900000<br>root@mercury-mythbox:/home/graeme# cat <br>/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq 2900000<br><br></div></blockquote>[ cut ]<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>40- 50% used, 74% idle is typical for 720p SD on TV1 - Advertisements<br><br>Olympics 720p HD lowest is 60% typically sits around 75-85% used and 60% <br>idle<br> highest spike 100% if large changes in screen content<br><br>Crappy movie TV3 1080i CPU typically 103% 110% peak, 45 % idle - 1.5 <br>second play, .5 second pause recurring.<br>Normal playback profile for deinterlacing used.<br><br>I managed to get to watch a recording once then the frontend crashes <br>came back<br><br>2008-08-23 21:11:13.861 [h264 @ 0xb7006230]number of reference frames <br>exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one<br>2008-08-23 21:11:13.861 [h264 @ 0xb7006230]number of reference frames <br>exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one<br>2008-08-23 21:11:13.862 [h264 @ 0xb7006230]number of reference frames <br>exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one<br>2008-08-23 21:11:13.912 [h264 @ 0xb7006230]mmco: unref short failure<br>2008-08-23 21:11:13.916 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait<br>2008-08-23 21:11:13.963 [h264 @ 0xb7006230]mmco: unref short failure<br>Segmentation fault<br><br>Changing to a lower screen resolution than 1920x1080 doesn't lower the <br>CPU usage<br><br>Transcoding either 720p or 1080i recordings to a more CPU friendly <br>format fails.<br><br>So it look like I'm going to join the source fiddlers club if I want to <br>watch TV3, one of them just had to choose 1080i !!<br><br>Barring that FFMpeg and Mythtv needs to get more multi threaded or I'm <br>screwed...<br><br>Funny, 5 years ago I generally couldn't have cared less about TV3 but <br>now most of what I watch is on it (sigh)<br><br>Hope that helps Steve, gee, aren't you glad you didn't buy that 5600+ <br>... :'(<br>I have my doubts about any currently available AMD dual core being able <br>to take TV3 on ...<br>A 3 Ghz Intel Core 2 seems to be the way to go.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks for that.. I think we might get by with skiploopfilter enabled and a couple of the other tweaks..</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise we can hope for some new GSoC patches in the next month.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></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>