2009-01-07, 02:11
I tested it with 8.10 on a 2.5Ghz AMD X2. I have no HD content other than the "killa sampla" you guys seem to love.
For SD (MPeg-2), there is a slight imbalance of load between the two CPUs, but it's not flagrant, i.e. maybe 60%/20%. It does vary a lot, and XBMC reports similar numbers to top, with slight delay.
I have 4-6 threads spawned for xbmc.bin, but the first on is 50% of CPU, the 2nd one is 10-15%, and the last two are minimal.
For the killa sampla, the imbalance is more obvious (i.e. 90/10) by the end of the clip.
Since I don't view any h264 content, I am hesitant to recompile, as finally got a build that works properly with pulse audio. Let someone else be the guinea pig.
By the way, disabling CPU throttling helps a lot in the drop frames department.
For SD (MPeg-2), there is a slight imbalance of load between the two CPUs, but it's not flagrant, i.e. maybe 60%/20%. It does vary a lot, and XBMC reports similar numbers to top, with slight delay.
I have 4-6 threads spawned for xbmc.bin, but the first on is 50% of CPU, the 2nd one is 10-15%, and the last two are minimal.
For the killa sampla, the imbalance is more obvious (i.e. 90/10) by the end of the clip.
Since I don't view any h264 content, I am hesitant to recompile, as finally got a build that works properly with pulse audio. Let someone else be the guinea pig.
By the way, disabling CPU throttling helps a lot in the drop frames department.