[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #8656: Display video format in INFO OSD

[Robert McNamara]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  (In [25889]) Better codec descriptions (than MPEG2) in the themed INFO
>>  OSD. Refs #8656.
>>
>>  Currently, MythPlayer::GetEncodingType() uses GetVideoCodecID(),
>>  which only iterates some of the FFmpeg codecs (plus, AVF's video_codec_id
>>  is often mapped to MPEG2 in ScanStream()). Basically, a more opaque way of
>>  getting codec descriptions was needed, and what is more opaque than a
>>  string?
>>
>>  Technically, this changes the library API, but since only libmythtv is
>>  calling the extra method, no version change - to save a full recompile.
>
> Hi Nigel,
>
> I think this may have broken the videocodec statetype?  MPEG-2 video
> is no longer matching in the statetype, so OSDs that use the statetype
> (Arclight) end up with nothing displayed when using the statetype.
>
> Robert
>

N/m, should be fixed now (assuming you can put up with having the (IMO
more correct) dash in the codec names.

Robert