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 Post subject: Re: Partial AMD64 fix
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:03 pm 
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Human wrote:
If you're using MythTV 0.20 with an Athlon/Sempron 64 CPU, please run these commands as root:
Code:
apt-get update
apt-get install mpeg2dec

Then switch to the Standard mpeg2 decoder option in your TV playback options. Please let me know what results you get. I saw a 20% drop in CPU usage. There are still problems with libmpeg2 and xvmc, though.


What do you mean by "switch to the Standard mpeg2 decoder option in your TV playback"? Will this break transcoded files?

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:14 pm 
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I noticed that your mpeg2dec trick updates from the beta release to the updated release which includes their bugfix for AMD64 processors. That's probably why you saw a decrease in cpu usage. I think if you follow suit and make sure the updated packages are in place for the rest of the libmpeg2 suite you may see even more performance increases.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:20 pm 
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afrosheen wrote:
I noticed that your mpeg2dec trick updates from the beta release to the updated release which includes their bugfix for AMD64 processors.

Actually, it installed 0.4.0b-2, not 0.4.1, which is the latest version. I'll try 0.4.1, though, to see if I get more improvement.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:29 am 
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I followed instructions and everything was, more or less, fine. I had to reboot to get it working.

The problem I have now is that I can't schedule recordings using MythWeb. Other than that MythWeb seems to be working fine. I can stream, I can review already scheduled recordings, I can see the listings, old recordings... but when I try to schedule new recording it doesn't show in the listing. When I check Upcoming recordings I can see that something is in that spot but it is without title and it is not active. When I click Activate I get this error.
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Fatal Error at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/programs.php, line 633:
Unknown schedule for this program's recordid:

If you choose to submit a bug report, please make sure to include a
brief description of what you were doing, along with the following
backtrace as an attachment (please don't paste the whole thing into
the ticket).
Backtrace:

datetime: 2006-10-05 13:27:05 (UTC)
errornum: 256
error type: User Error
error string: Unknown schedule for this program's recordid:
filename: /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/programs.php
error line: 633

==========================================================================

There is more in that error, and I can post it if somebody thinks it would help.
Scheduling works normal when I do it in the Frontend.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:42 am 
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dir3wolf wrote:
The problem I have now is that I can't schedule recordings using MythWeb.

Search the forum - there's a fix for this.


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 Post subject: Re: Partial AMD64 fix
PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:38 pm 
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baishen78 wrote:
What do you mean by "switch to the Standard mpeg2 decoder option in your TV playback"? Will this break transcoded files?

In the options for TV playback, select Standard as the mpeg2 decoder to use. This only applies for mpeg2 content.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:39 pm 
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So, does this mean it is safe to upgrade from R5C7 to R5D1, or should I keep my R5C7 mythtv .20fixes svn, and hold out. I have updated mpeg2dec and ffmpeg. I have not been home yet today to check it, but I will as soon as I get home from work. Last night on my Homemade dragon, I was getting 47 to 50% on libffmpeg and bob 2 deint. 45 to 50% on standard with bob2. XvMC was 60 to 76%. I am hoping to see some improvement tonight using Human's suggestion. I will post when I know more.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:27 pm 
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sjerome wrote:
So, does this mean it is safe to upgrade from R5C7 to R5D1, or should I keep my R5C7 mythtv .20fixes svn, and hold out.

KnoppMyth does two main things for you: makes the software installation easy and makes the configuration easy. If you've already done both with R5C7, there's no need for you to upgrade right now.
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I have updated mpeg2dec and ffmpeg. I have not been home yet today to check it, but I will as soon as I get home from work. Last night on my Homemade dragon, I was getting 47 to 50% on libffmpeg and bob 2 deint. 45 to 50% on standard with bob2. XvMC was 60 to 76%.

To standardize the results, can you try these test clips and let me know what CPU usage you have with them? http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12022[/quote]

There's also a kludgy script I wrote so that you can plot the usage in gnuplot:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

export MYTICKS=100
export MYINTERVAL=4 # we sample once every $MYINTERVAL seconds
export MYINVERSEINTERVAL=0.25

top -d $MYINVERSEINTERVAL -n $MYTICKS -b | egrep -e "mythfrontend|X" | perl -e "while(<>) { split(' '); print @_[8],"\n";}" > profile
sed -i '{ N; s/\n/ /}' profile
perl -e '$second=0; while(<>) { chop(); $load = $_; print "$second $load "; split " ", $load; print @_[0] + @_[1], "\n"; $second+=0.25;}' < profile > points
echo "set grid
set xrange [0: $(($MYTICKS/$MYINTERVAL))]
set yrange [0: 100]
set xtics 0,$MYINVERSEINTERVAL,$(($MYTICKS/$MYINTERVAL))
set xlabel "time"
set ylabel "CPU usage"
plot "points" using 1:2 with lines title 'frontend', "points" using 1:3 with lines lt -1 title 'X', "points" using 1:4 with lines lt 3 title 'frontend+X'
replot" > gplot.cmds
gnuplot -persist gplot.cmds

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:27 am 
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dir3wolf wrote:
The problem I have now is that I can't schedule recordings using MythWeb. Other than that MythWeb seems to be working fine. I can stream, I can review already scheduled recordings, I can see the listings, old recordings... but when I try to schedule new recording it doesn't show in the listing. When I check Upcoming recordings I can see that something is in that spot but it is without title and it is not active.


@dir3wolf

Did you find a solution to this problem? I just did the upgrade and am having the same problem.

It looks like the title field is blank when the new recording is inserted into the database.
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114 Query REPLACE INTO record (recordid,type,chanid,starttime,startdate,endtime,enddate,search,title,subtitle,description,profile,recpriority,
category,maxnewest,inactive,maxepisodes,autoexpire,startoffset,endoffset,recgroup,dupmethod,dupin,station,
seriesid,programid,autocommflag,findday,findtime,findid,autotranscode,transcoder,parentid,tsdefault,autouserjob1,
autouserjob2,autouserjob3,autouserjob4)
VALUES ('0','1','1110', FROM_UNIXTIME('1161455400'),FROM_UNIXTIME('1161455400'),FROM_UNIXTIME('1161457200'),
FROM_UNIXTIME('1161457200'),'0','','','','Default','0','0','0','0','0','1','0','0','0','6','15','','','','1','0',
'13:30:00','732970.770833','1','0','0','1.00','0','0','0','0')


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:57 am 
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dogsop and dir3wolf,

Re the mythweb problems scheduling a recording ...

Have you seen this thread:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11627

This fix worked for me.

-K


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:13 am 
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Yup, that was the problem.

Thank you, I hadn't found that thread.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:17 am 
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KMan wrote:
dogsop and dir3wolf,

Re the mythweb problems scheduling a recording ...

Have you seen this thread:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11627

This fix worked for me.

-K


Thanks KMan, it worked... ;-)


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