[mythtv-users] PBS interlacing not working - Was: Cyberchase and de-interlacing

[Justin The Cynical]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 06/07/2009 10:17 PM, George Mari wrote:

*snip*

>> The fact that myth couldn't determine what video renderer you 
>> specified in your custom playback profile, and that it couldn't load a 
>> deinterlace filter, seems to point to an incorrectly configured custom 
>> playback profile.
>>
>> What happens if you use CPU++?
> 
> Better would be to try the simplest playback profile group (which is 
> basically the same as 0.20's software rendering), Slim, as it's the 
> group that's most likely to work on any hardware.

Well, I've tried CPU++, and it didn't deinterlace at all.  Combing is 
painfully apparent.

Snippet from the frontend log:

2009-06-09 15:43:51.124 XMLParse::LoadTheme using 
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem-wide/ui.xml
2009-06-09 15:44:17.266 TV: Attempting to change from None to 
WatchingPreRecorded
2009-06-09 15:44:17.600 AFD: Opened codec 0x8380fb0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) 
type(Video)
2009-06-09 15:44:17.600 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
2009-06-09 15:44:17.601 AFD: Opened codec 0x832e4f0, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2009-06-09 15:44:17.601 AFD: codec AC3 has 1 channels
2009-06-09 15:44:17.601 AFD: Opened codec 0x82e3580, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2009-06-09 15:44:17.601 AFD: codec AC3 has 1 channels
2009-06-09 15:44:17.602 AFD: Opened codec 0x8309050, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2009-06-09 15:44:17.603 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
2009-06-09 15:44:17.603 Opening ALSA audio device 'spdif'.
2009-06-09 15:44:17.637 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
2009-06-09 15:44:17.637 Opening ALSA audio device 'spdif'.
2009-06-09 15:44:18.140 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video 
Texture'
2009-06-09 15:44:18.161 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 640 H: 480
2009-06-09 15:44:18.444 The realtime priority setting is not enabled.
2009-06-09 15:44:18.444 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2009-06-09 15:44:18.545 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2009-06-09 15:44:18.549 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2009-06-09 15:44:18.557 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2009-06-09 15:44:18.564 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2009-06-09 15:44:19.997 [mpeg2video @ 0xb7302a88]invalid mb type in B 
Frame at 5 21
2009-06-09 15:44:19.997 [mpeg2video @ 0xb7302a88]Warning MVs not available
2009-06-09 15:44:28.252 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2009-06-09 15:44:30.374 [mpeg2video @ 0xb7302a88]invalid mb type in B 
Frame at 5 21
2009-06-09 15:44:58.909 TV: Attempting to change from 
WatchingPreRecorded to None
2009-06-09 15:44:58.985 TV: Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None


No errors about the video render or the deinterlacer, but damn it's 
nasty looking.  The kids don't seem to care, but it really bothers me.  :-)