Hi gurus and forumers,
my system is a core2duo, with a hardware mpeg2 analog tuner. I use MP 1.0 RC1.
When TVServer is recording a program in the background or is doing timeshifting (without any clients connected, so recording is done only), my CPU load jumps up to somewhere between 25% ad 50%. This, in a dual core setup means that one core is utilised to 50%-100%. Usually, watching a program is utilizing the cpu to only a marginal level - it seems rcording is the task that takes this much.
I have always been under the assumption that a hardware MPEG2 encoder is supposed to take quite some load off the CPU during recording. Do you think this high cpu is normal? What is the actual reason for such a high CPU requirement? Is there something I could do to make utilisation lower?
(well, this last question is a comfort question. In my home the room temperature during summer can go up to 25-28 degrees celsius, and in such warm environment the cpu fan starts making more noise under higher loads. I would like to make less noise for my family.)
Thx, tom
my system is a core2duo, with a hardware mpeg2 analog tuner. I use MP 1.0 RC1.
When TVServer is recording a program in the background or is doing timeshifting (without any clients connected, so recording is done only), my CPU load jumps up to somewhere between 25% ad 50%. This, in a dual core setup means that one core is utilised to 50%-100%. Usually, watching a program is utilizing the cpu to only a marginal level - it seems rcording is the task that takes this much.
I have always been under the assumption that a hardware MPEG2 encoder is supposed to take quite some load off the CPU during recording. Do you think this high cpu is normal? What is the actual reason for such a high CPU requirement? Is there something I could do to make utilisation lower?
(well, this last question is a comfort question. In my home the room temperature during summer can go up to 25-28 degrees celsius, and in such warm environment the cpu fan starts making more noise under higher loads. I would like to make less noise for my family.)
Thx, tom
United Kingdom