I’m having two minor issues I hope the UPS man delivered the solution to one.

City of Villains: On my windows machine I can’t seem to play CoV with any pep. During beta I figured, “Hey, its beta,” but the released version seems to have the same problems. The main one is about zone loading taking forever rending the game fairly unfun to play. I’m going to have to guess that it’s the half gig ram that is the problem. Everything else seems up to spec: Athlon 2800+ XP, GeForce 6600 video card, clean OS install, etc.

Well anyway I got a gig of ram to add, Hopefully that will fix the problem.

Xine: On my Home Theater PC since I installed the new version of Knoppmyth, xine has had these little sound skips every few seconds. Last night around 2am it worked fine. I’m pretty sure that was because nothing was being recorded or commercial flagged. This problem doesn’t occur when playing the video with mplayer or ogle but they have other issues that make them less attractive for playing dvds.

CPU is around 20% and spikes to about 50% so it doesn’t seem to be CPU bound. Most likely scenario is that it is IO bound. Something is touching the dvd causing a delay or the dvd is trying to use the hardware en/decoder which is now busy with the recording of TV shows and it causes “issues.”

Not really sure how to tackle this. First step is to make sure xine is using software decoding, there’s probably a switch to force that somewhere. After that I’m not sure. The dvd and the harddrive of on different IDE buses so I’m not sure what else I do about IO bound problem.

It is possible that mythtv is checking to see if someone has changed the dvd every few second and that is causing the problem. I’ll have to make sure that option is disable. I thought that was a front end option and I’ve run tests with the front end disabled, so I’m not hopeful.

Anyway I’m going to see what 1.5 gig does for CoV now.