[mythtv] 20180705 Android Observations

[Peter Bennett]

On 07/08/2018 03:15 PM, David Engel wrote:
> I bumped the number of buffers up a little bit and 1080i at 1x was
> very smooth, but any timestretching made it more jerky than it should
> be.  I think something in the video display timing doesn't know that
> the video is being deinterlaced at 2x.  720p content at 60 fps is as
> smooth as it can be at any speed, so 1080i content deinterlaced to 60
> fps should be the same.  The only thing that could prevent that is if
> the decoder or deinterlacer can just barely do their jobs at 1x with
> no extra margin. and don't believe that's the case.

David

Please share with me what you found to be the best buffer values. For 
the meantime I should add them to the patch with an #ifdef for android.
Then I can work on timestretch with those buffer values.

Peter