[04:04] <mishehu> greets folks.  I have an atom n330 dual core ION, and though it's terribly underpowered, I can play some files well and others can't seem to play at all viewably.
[04:05] <mishehu> for example, one matroska that I have has this for a video stream:  Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default) , and this file plays perfectly well
[04:06] <mishehu> the other file, Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (also matroska), plays terribly.  I notice that if I try to play this with vlc, I get the same performance, even if I try to adjust the thread settings in the ffmpeg/libavc decoder.  It only ever maxes out one cpu, and never uses the other cpu.
[04:07] <mishehu> does anybody have any suggestions as to what I may be able to do (besides replacing the hardware) to be able to play this second file?
[04:45] <dekarl> mishehu: if you max out a CPU then something is going wrong. the decoding should be done on the GPU and not tax the CPU that much.
[04:46] <dekarl> I'd verify if the hardware decoding is used or not first
[06:19] <mishehu> dekarl: well the nvidia drivers are installed, and though it's an ION does that mean that the h264 is done on the nvidia card itself?
[06:19] <mishehu> or was it only a subset of the processing?
[06:37] <mishehu> I tried adjusting the frame buffer in the bios so that it had 512 mb instead of 64 mb (the prior setting), yet mythfrontend and vlc still end up using 100% of one of the cores
[06:39] <dekarl> hmm, I can look at my ION
[06:40] <dekarl> what decoding profile have you selected in the frontend setup? Should be VDPAU slim/normal/high
[06:41] <mishehu> remind me please what setup menu those options are under
[06:44] <mishehu> that under playback profiles?
[06:48] <mishehu> looks like that was it
[06:49] <mishehu> I set vdpau to highest, and the cpu's only at 17%
[06:49] <mishehu> thanks for the help dekarl
[06:51] <dekarl> glad that it was so easy (sorry I'm a bit slow, I have baby duty this morning :)
[06:55] <mishehu> eh it's ok
[06:55] <mishehu> I reloaded that machine a few times
[06:55] <mishehu> that's why I missed setting it for vdpau in teh first place
[06:56] <mishehu> so it does about 17% cpu for 720p h264, and 6-7% for standard dvd
[06:56] <mishehu> much much better
[06:57] <dekarl> sounds about right, too
[06:58] <mishehu> night and day
[06:58] <mishehu> I was getting quite irritated
[06:58] <mishehu> now it works :-)
[15:12] <James2> [14:59:17] <James2> hmm and im unable to tune to one of the satelite muxes...
[15:12] <James2> [14:59:20] <James2> http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/info/sat_frequencies.shtml
[15:12] <James2> [14:59:37] <James2> DSAT8 imtuned to, but DSAT4's settings just give me a timeout and no channels
[15:12] <James2> [14:59:55] <James2> is that likely to happen if the dish alignment was slghtly out
[15:12] <James2> [15:00:16] <James2> but i dont understand why i can get one of its muxes but not another, surely if it can see the satelite, it can see it right?
[17:27] <sabhain> anyone here using multiple monitors with 12.04?
[21:54] <James2> michael@myth-bedroom:/data$ mythtv-setup --help
[21:54] <James2> xprop:  unable to open display ''
[21:54] <James2> (zenity:19556): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[21:55] <James2> any reason i cant run the mythtv-setup cli using ssh?
[22:06] <rhpot1991> James2: it requires x
[22:06] <rhpot1991> it isn't cli
[22:07] <rhpot1991> you might be able to ssh -X it
[22:07] <rhpot1991> probably easier to just vnc though
[22:07] <James2> it is, your wrapper script just doesnt allow it due to its use of xterm
[22:07] <James2> what i expected was the output from
[22:07] <James2> mythtv-setup.real which i didnt know youd renamed and wrapped
[22:08] <James2> mythtv-setup.real --help  correctly returns its usage