2015-04-22, 12:55
(2015-04-21, 05:22)the_mouse Wrote:(2015-04-20, 12:52)Soli Wrote: What I meant is that the AMD A8 is probably a nice CPU, but it's single threaded performance might not be up to par since it does in fact compete with similar duo core cpus from Intel (If I am not mistaken). Add to this the overhead of Mint and Kodi, and that software decoding is still largely singlethreaded, and you have your possible reason right there.
Sadly hardware accel. is only available for ChromeOS.
I just checked out single thread performance and you are right in that area it is not very good, that explains my issue. I do hope that at some point in the future they enable acceleration or at least multi thread.
Thanks for your info/help
Watching the CPU usage while watching a programme, all four cores sit around 30-40% and drop to about 2% when paused, would that not suggest that the decoding is multi threaded?
