TVtime : why does it eat my CPU ?? :-(

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Hi,

So far I have been using XawTV to watch TV. I have seen many people here
recommend TVtime over time. TVtime never worked for me since Warty, but
in Dapper, at last it works. 
At first I was happy with it, as it cured two of the problems I had/have
with XawTV : impossibility to go fullscreen unless accelerated video
drivers are installed, and cheap looking flickering when objects
(windows, gnome menus) happen to land over the  TV window.

But life is never perfect, and I just noticed a big problem : TVtime
eats looooots of CPU ! I fiddled with all the options in the "video
processing" menu, and the lowest it can manage (considering the TVtime +
Xorg combo of course) is about 10%, take or leave 2%. With some options
it can go up to 70% !!!
With XawTV, the figure is simply zero, one percent max !
So I am rather surprised and disappointed. I gathered that TVtime was a
high quality app, but as far as CPU ressources go, it's a disaster ! :-O

No, I am not using a Pentium 120MHz... but a decent 1.5GHz CPU (AMD
Athlon XP 1700+).

I am no developer but if XawTV can manage 0% CPU usage, surely TVtime
can do it too ? XawTV is open source after all, so even if it uses
rocket science.. it's all there for the TVtime devs to look at...

If someone knows how to "fix"/configure TVtime to become as CPU friendly
as XawTV, please rescue me ! :-)

This CPU usage problem is the only thing that keeps me off using TVtime.
Other than this, it has a few interesting advanced features.
Well, I would love it if it had a "VCR"/recording feature. That would
make it indeed a very complete TV app. Some day maybe...

--
Vince