[Kwintv] CPU usage

[Neil Macvicar]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:14, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2004 12:32, Andras Mantia wrote:
>
> [...]
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> I also observe high CPU usage, I usually have 50% load for X and about 1%
> for qtvision (Athlon XP2000, Kernel 2.4.18). I added some code to print FPS
> yesterday, but it is correct at 25FPS, so the load does not come from too
> many grabs/paints. AFAIR I see the high CPU usage since the first time I
> checked it about 4 months ago, so if something has changed, it must be much
> further in the past.
> I looks like my graphics card (Radeon 9500) is not used for YUV->RGB
> conversion and scaling. But even if this is done in software, I think that
> these operations are not THAT CPU intensive. Do you have an idea, George?

With my Hauppage WinTV card, on my PII450MHz linux 2.6.2 XFree 4.3.99.902 I 
get 2.3% CPU usage for X, and 0% for qtvision.