You are absolutely right, the P4 has indeed 2.4GHz (and 512MB of RAM) Which makes it the more surprising that on SD channels I am getting cpu utilization in the region of 80% to 95% It should be a lot less?

This is the lspci output for the graphics card: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:34:15 +0100 From: Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk Subject: Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4 To: vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: 20100821233415.5c6c5a7f@realh.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:41:32 +0200 martinez@embl.de wrote:

I?ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, P4@553Mhz, 512Megs of RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically.

Do you mean P3 or have you mistyped the clock speed? The slowest P4 was about 1400MHz, I thought. Surely one wouldn't be underclocked by such a huge factor.