<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>My X2 6000+ was delivered just an hour or so ago and now have working TV3 - subject to a couple of minor niggles below.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with Paul's most recent patched MythTV release and loopfilter disabled in my playback profile. The motherboard is an M2NPV-VM with 2G Ram and a Hauppauge HVR-900 USB tuner.</div><div><br></div><div>Previously I had an X2 3600+ in my test rig which really didn't cut it.</div><div><br></div><div>X2 3600+</div><div><div>cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies </div><div>2000000 1800000 1000000 </div><div><br></div></div><div>X2 6000+</div><div>cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies </div><div>3100000 3000000 2800000 2600000 2400000 2200000 2000000 1800000 1000000 </div><div><br></div><div>Ok so a lot more speeds to play with but for the purposes of testing I changed the governor to performance which locks the CPU at its fastest speed.</div><div><br></div><div>echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor </div><div><br></div><div>So First a bunch of pre-recorded content</div><div><br></div><div>Channel<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CPU<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CPU with Bob</div><div>TV3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>83%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>100+</div><div>TV2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>50%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>50%</div><div>TV One<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>50%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>50%</div><div><br></div><div>Live content</div><div><div><br></div><div>Channel<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>CPU<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>CPU with Bob</div><div>TV3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>83%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>100+</div><div>TV One<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>59%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>59%</div><div>CTV8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>21%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>25%</div><div>TVNZ 6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>21%<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>24%</div></div><div><br></div><div>So it appears that the Bob de-interlacer adds quite a bit of additional load, but thankfully most of that appears to be on the second core. For TV3 above I get 88% on one core and 29% on the second core with Bob. Without a de-interlacer almost all the load is on one cpu.</div><div><br></div><div>There doesn't appear to be much of a performance difference between playing AC3 or AAC on TV 3 which is good news.</div><div><br></div><div>So the niggles</div><div>1. The X2 6000+ is a 89W CPU part so the core is hotter and the fan faster than I'd prefer. There are rumours of some lower power parts, but they might only work in AM2+ compatible boards.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Occasionally I get a picture in picture effect when I switch between 720p and 1080i channels which I have two copies of the same video feed on screen, one of which is in a small box in the top left hand of the screen.</div><div><br></div><div>3. The AAC audio doesn't always lock on a channel change</div><div><br></div><div>So I have something that works, but I wouldn't consider it customer ready.</div><div><br></div><div>I think I need to consider an Intel compatible alternative, but can't find a board with integrated Composite/Component/SVideo as well as DVI/HDMI in the Intel space.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><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>