[mythtv-users] How do playback profiles affect MythVideo?

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2008 08:29 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>  > I'm guessing playback profiles are causing my crappy MythVideo
>  > performance (performance is a word I use very loosely here).  In 0.20,
>  > I had no problems playing any of my .avi files.  Since 0.21, I get
>  > skips in the video.  These are accompanied by:
>  >
>  > NVP::AddAudioData():p1: Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
>  >
>  > ad nauseum.
>  >
>
>  If you're using release version 0.21, upgrade to the latest 0.21-fixes.
>  There were quite a few audio-related fixes.  Also, there's likely to be
>  additional fixes added as more testing occurs.  Most likely the audio
>  issues you're seeing (if they are causing your performance issues) have
>  nothing to do with the playback profiles since they do not affect audio
>  processing.
>
>
>  > Do I need to set up a profile specifically for my MythVideo files?  I
>  > have no problem playing eithe SD or HD recorded programs.
>
>  No, but you must have MythVideo videos in mind when designing your
>  playback profile group.
>
>  Basically, choosing Slim is the equivalent of the 0.20 software rendered
>  output (no XvMC, no PVR-350 output).  Try that and see if it works
>  better.  If you lost your defaults, see
>  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles#Default_profile_groups
>

OK - I'll hold tight until there's a Gentoo ebuild for -fixes.
Hopefully that'll be soon.

Gotta admit - I'm using greedydeint on a Nvidia 6150 board with a
3800x2, and I can watch 1080i HD deinterlaced using only about 30% per
processor.  Nice!