[Kwintv] CPU load

Tomi Laamanen laamanen at cc.jyu.fi
Tue Feb 22 21:05:03 CET 2005


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 20:34, Tomi Laamanen wrote:

> > > kdetv seems to generate quite high cpu load:
> > >
> > > - With XVideo plugin and Teletext plugin enabled 8-10 %.
> > > - With v4l2 plugin 40-70 %.
> > >
> > > Disabling Teletext plugin helps but only with XVideo plugin.
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Just noticed that disabling deinterlacing decreases the load
> > but using v4l2 plugin it's still almost 15 %.
> Difficult to say since you do not tell us your processor, but on my system, 
> kdetv uses <3% (+30% X) load (Athlon 64 3000+) for half-framerate fullscreen 
> video display (1280x1024) including TomsMoComp deinterlacing.
> 
> tvtime used 30% CPU + 15% X. So these values do not seem too high for a TV 
> viewer.

The processor is 1 GHz Celeron, resolution 1600x1200. Full/half framerate
does not seem to have any effect on load. xawtv/motv uses < 1 %.

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