I demand that Jouni Karvo may or may not have written... [snip] > I have a dedicated VDR box running vdr-xine with P4 2.4GHz and Radeon 9200. > Stability is not currently a problem (1.3.27) - since spring the system has > been easily up more than a day :) It has stayed up without problems for at > least a week, but due to my usage of nvram-wakeup, I have no statistics of > longer uptime. > The reason why a separate xine is nice is that currently the setup eats up > all the CPU cycles. [...] Hmm? I'm seeing around 30% CPU usage with gxine (2GHz Athlon, Radeon 9200, 266MHz bus, AGP 4x). > Btw. if someone has any hints on how to reduce used cpu cycles, they are > warmly welcome. And yes, I use the fglrx driver - without that the picture > is jerky. Something's evidently not right with your setup. Are you using Xv? Have you tried the native R200 support in a recent 2.6 kernel and X? A patch which recently went into xine-lib CVS HEAD helps somewhat (it optimises the video buffer allocation somewhat, which affects things like software deinterlacing). -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland | s zap,tartarus,org | RISC OS | Toon Army | @ Say NO to UK ID cards | http://www.no2id.net/ Beam me up, Scotty!
