[mythtv] render2019 comments

[John Pilkington]

On 30/09/2019 19:29, John Pilkington wrote:

> The menu/playback/playback_data display is showing ffmpeg decoding for 
> all H.264 and MPEG-2.  I have 'NVDEC Normal' selected and it is shown as 
> being supported in the frontend startup and on this page (in the 
> 'complete list' section, GeForce GT 710) so I'm not sure what to 
> believe.  I'm not using AVSync2 because ISTR it used to have problems 
> with DVB-T Radio;  I haven't investigated that recently.
> 
> https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix
> 
> Anyway it's looking good and I plan to live with it.

I'm now on b449f5e.  I wondered if I had appropriate driver-extras
installed, and looked at

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#NVENC.2FNVDEC

I had the cuda-libs package, and have now added vdpauinfo, 
libva-vdpau-driver and libva-utils as suggested in the VDPAU/VAAPI 
section.  On frontend startup NVDEC is available and VAAPI is recognised 
as using a VDPAU backend and ignored.  NVDEC codecs are MPEG1,2,4, VC-1 
and H.264
The OSD always says it's using ffmpeg and no deint.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
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