High CPU usage in "standby" (1 Viewer)

[krraqk]

Maybe its the graphics card after all I dont know, but anyway the 7100 seems much more modern that the mx2 that tha_jackson mentioned...

Paranoid Delusion: With RC3 seems that one of my main problems has been solved: many problems to record tv my dual dvb-t tuner card (fingers crossed). Previously many times I was not able to record and after pushing the record button many times in the tv-server configuration I was getting many duplications of the tv card (in the manual control page). It makes sense to you?

Aside of MP Im having also some problems playing HD content, I have CoreAVC installed and my system has sufficient power to play hd content (c2d at 2,8 ghz). In MP (avc core selected for h264) if I play mkv hd movies I get audio/video delays while the cpu is only at 40- 50% max, even with low rate movies. I can play it without many problems with some external players, although if the movie has a high rate then I get also that delay between audio/video problem (without get near of 100% of cpu hit). So in the end maybe my graphics card is a problem or the video codecs is a nightmare that I can solve.

tha_jackson: What integrated video card you have that get those problems mentioned? you can play hd content outside MP whit this graphic card (if yes, what cpu do you have)?

 

[tha_jackson]

I have an Intel Pentium Mobile @ 1.8 GHz with an Intel 855 GME Chipset with Intel Extreme Graphics 2 controller. Right now I am not playing any HD content. Just xvid videos @ normal PAL resolution... But as far as I know HD content is especially a graphics power demanding feature. Your graphics card has to do all the decoding and calculating of the full resolution...

 

[krraqk]

Hi tha_jackson

in reality to play hd content is very rare to have advantage with the video card (only a few formats/codecs are supported by some video cards) and normally all the work is done by the cpu.

Anyway the integrated graphics card in your pc sounds to me more powerful than this old video card you have put in your pc. How strange...

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

What does and does'nt work graphics chip wise, seems to vary drastically from system to system, this may just be a BIOS setting or driver issue, even just plain bad design, generally older cards do suffer badly with no directx9 support, but people have still managed to get MP to run, albeit slowly and using a very simple graphical skin.

A powerful cpu cannot totally overcome a weakness in the design of the gpu chip, that's why there is a current race to fit the more powerful gpu's to motherboards, without raising temperatures too high.

The forum is just full of these posts, i'm amazed that tha_jackson managed to get things running with a mx2 card, but i bet it does not like Blue3 skin as it's full of animations.

 

[tha_jackson]

Paranoid Delusion:
This bet you'll loose I am currently using the Blue3 Skin with all nice animations - like the cover scrolling and so on... It just works flawless! The only problem that I have right now is that I have a slight flickering when watching movies with camera moves. But as far as I have read here in the forums this is due to the deactivated "always on top" (or so) option in the config menu... But this doesn't hurt me
krraqk:
I didn't play around with the bios setting (regarding the shared memory amount and so on) and switched to the 2MX immediately - works for me
Hope you get your stuff fixed!

 

[WildW]

I'm just starting to come across this same problem. In the past I've run MediaPortal without issues on a low-spec machine (1GHz Pentium 3, 512MB ram, Geforce4MX graphics), so I didn't expect any issues with the replacement I just bought.

I picked up a Mac-Mini sized PC by AOpen, with Celeron M 1.4GHz and Intel 915GM Graphics (integrated). I'm now having major CPU munching issues in MediaPortal's menus. You'd think the difficult bit would be playing back video - which it manages at < 20% CPU usage. But in the menus it's stuck at 99%, and is sluggish.

I read with interest that it's likely to be graphics chip related. I've updated drivers, set memory options for the on-board graphics to maximum in the bios, but no change. I was intrigued by

The forum is just full of these posts, i'm amazed that tha_jackson managed to get things running with a mx2 card, but i bet it does not like Blue3 skin as it's full of animations.

I looked briefly through the skins that are available in search of a boring resource-light one, but to no avail. Does such a thing exist? I have animations unticked in the general options but it hasn't helped.

It's starting to look like this machine is just incapable of running MediaPortal without cooking itself at 100% CPU usage . . .which is plain stupid. I realise the CPU is having to step in to do the DirectX stuff that the graphics chip doesn't support, but it's only drawing a menu. . . I just can't figure out why the interface has to be redrawn constantly when once-per-button-press would do fine.

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[Paranoid Delusion]

It's starting to look like this machine is just incapable of running MediaPortal without cooking itself at 100% CPU usage . . .which is plain stupid. I realise the CPU is having to step in to do the DirectX stuff that the graphics chip doesn't support, but it's only drawing a menu. . . I just can't figure out why the interface has to be redrawn constantly when once-per-button-press would do fine.

MP has more in common with a pc game than a straightforward application, hence the mid range graphics requirement.

Intel graphics chips cannot cut the mustard in this war, that's why Nvidia\ATI dominate the market.

 

[tangmonster]

I may have the same kind of problem but mine gets a bit worse.

I have a ati 9550 agp(basically a 9600 cpu with slower cheap ram) card in my celeron 2.66 with 512mb ram. This has always been just fine.

But when i recently upgraded to rc3 (and with the latest svn) things are very sluggish in the menu.

The funny thing is , when i first start mediaportal it's just fine and after a while things gets slower. And cpu usage spikes a lot.

At this stage if i whatch an avi 3/4's into the movie the cpu usage goes to 100% and the movie starts struggeling. I then stop the movie and then press play again and all is well for at least another 30 minutes. This also happens with dvd's.

I also upgraded my graphics card drivers (newest from ATI website) with my rc3 installation. So this might also be the problem.

I am still trying to figure out what the problem is ,but if anyone has any ideas or input i'll appreciate it.

My five is NOT happy about the jittery movies.


WildW , you must try blackmyst. very low on recources!

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

A couple of things you can try, make sure you have latest directx (august 2008), install .net3\3.5 as well.

Make sure WMP11 is also upto date, hopefully these may make things smoother.

May be worthwhile switching in MP config\directshow filters from vmr9 to EVR and see if that makes video run smoother without the cpu rise.

 

[tangmonster]

thanks . i'll make sure about directx and .net

i am also currently finding a few older version graphics card drivers to test tonight when i get home.