[mythtv] Playback Data live TV "Deint: None"

[John P Poet]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:10 AM Klaas de Waal <klaas.de.waal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Yes, I had indeed a setting for width > 720 and height > 576 for the
> profile and no default setting . The default setting used to be software
> decoding.
> I have removed the width and height restrictions and the videos of all
> resolutions play now with deinterlacing. OK.
>
> But, and this is the crucial part, now that I have removed the
> width/height restrictions also the live TV does use the deiinterlacing!!!!!
>
> This suggests that the live TV setting can select the wrong profile, such
> as that it does not look at the width and height settings in the profile.
> Or that it selects  a profile when width and height are still zero
> (because no video has been decoded yet).
>
> I agree about using all available CPU cores as default value.
>
> About software decoding, this has always been my preferred setting when
> the CPU was fast enough because software decoding is usually more capable
> of handling errors in the input stream in the sense that it does better
> correction so that you do not see the errors. At least with MPEG2/SD this
> was the case. But given that I have been watching via the VDPAU decoder for
> the last few years this is for me not much of an issue. But my cable signal
> is perfect, for terrestrial and satellite the software decoding option
> would be useful.
>

On my Shield I use software decode and OpenGL rendering. This is because I
have one station which broadcasts "corrupt" 1080i mpeg2 which the hardware
decoders do not handle well, resulting in pixelization.  When using the
software decoder the picture looks perfect.

John
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