<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 20/10/2008, at 10:50 AM, Steven Ellis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 20/10/2008, at 10:35 AM, Andrew Richards wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Steve,<br><br>I get: 2600000 2400000 2200000 2000000 1800000 1000000<br><br>Playing back the recording of Bones from last night: it does work, I <br>think. I just watched for 2-3 mins, then got a couple of small skips. <br>Its as if it is right on the edge, the smallest change means it losses <br>sync. Hence I would like to force AAC, even that tinny difference miht <br>help. Plus the 6 channel AC3 sound is very quite when running in two <br>channels as I have to, and it is annoying having to turn the speakers up <br>near max.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The AAC audio is likely to have more of a performance hit than the AC3 as the current AAC decoder isn't particularly efficient.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Will try that Bones recording again with the governor set to performance.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Based on your setting if I set my max speed to 2.6 I should be able to simulate your CPU.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll have a go later today.</div></div></div><br></blockquote><br></div><div>Hmm That was quick.. I used a recorded episode of Medium in HD</div><div><br></div><div>My playback profile is as follows with the core pegged to 2.6 GHz to simulate an X2 5200+</div><div><br></div><div>CPU ++</div><div><br></div><div>Decoder = Standard</div><div>Max CPUs = 2</div><div>Loopfilter = off</div><div>xv-blit + softblend + OSD Fade</div><div>Primary Deinrerlacer = Bob 2x</div><div><br></div><div>Now this had some playback problems with occasional skipping and one of the Cores alway at 100%</div><div><br></div><div>Then I tried a CPU+ profile still with Bob deinterlacer and I'm still running at 99%+ on one core and some minor skipping</div><div><br></div><div>Then I tried CPU+ with single field deinterlacer and again 100% CPU and still some minor skipping.</div><div><br></div><div>I then bumped the max speed to 2.8 GHz and got similar load but less skipping</div><div><br></div><div>Going up again to 3GHz and things all smothed out. Max load per core was in the 86-90% load and mythfrontend was generally under 100%.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadly once I go up to 3GHz the CPU gets so hot that the fan has to speed up and the test rig is too noisy..</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><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>