[ubuntu-xbmc]

Richardk, I have quite a few file, but definitely not thousands.

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.mpg" | wc -l

finds 179 mpegs. It might be a bit higher than that (~185) because I have a few .nuv files.

I ran my logging line for 13 hours and graphed the results, they show a pretty consistent increase.



Each cross on this graph is a raw observation of CPU usage by the process the OS identifies as mythbackend. The dark red areas are the where the observations are so numerous to overwrite each other. I have no idea if this is a completely valid test, just the results from pidstat, but it does show the increase.

The drop-off at 7000 seconds is when XBMC was not running, I'm pretty sure the spike at 20,000 is when I was watching an HD recording, but I don't have that particularly accurately recorded -- so the drop-off at 15000 could be me watching the recording, and spike at 20000 the load returning to normal. One other thing that might be interesting is that the CPU spikes up and down in 10 second cycles. See this closeup of 7 minutes on CPU cycle between higher and lower CPU usage. Perhaps that's normal but the trend isn't, but I thought I would point it out. I don't know why there is the drop-off at the end, but if anyone finds it interesting, I can check to see if it continues.


Den4t,

Ok, good to know you found that line. I might have grepped another log?


Janbar,

It is weird ! It is like you spawn the channel using internal "mythtv" support of xbmc. Do you spawn the channel using PVR TV screen ?

I go into the channel selection screen in xbmc (the one shown in this video at 8 seconds), scroll down and select the channel. I use the Hybrid skin, if that matters.

So you must remove it using "root" account: For example using "sudo apt-get purge xbmc-pvr-mythtv-cmyth" , or if you haven't installed it using a package manager: "sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth". Your own made addon should be unzipped into "~/.xbmc/addons/".

I had used

Code:

sudo rm -Rf * /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth

before I unzipped to that same location. I didn't use a package manager as I didn't even realize a package manager could operate on an addon.

I'll try to remove the old, original distribution addon with apt-get (just in case), then unzip into ~/.xbmc/addons. BUT, one question on this, I have two users -- do I unzip to both user's home folder? Do I just unzip to the compiling-user's home folder? I assume I have to unzip to both?

I'll also check out the log, and if necessary capture a new one. That might take a bit.

Thanks