[mythtv-users] Acer Revo 1600 success story

[Greg Oliver]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Timbo <mythtv at koomba.net> wrote:
> On 1/17/2010 8:21 AM, Richard Kershenbaum wrote:
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> I'm a little confused about how to setup the playback profile for my AR1600
> frontend running Mythbuntu 9.10.
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> If I use "VDPAU High Quality", I get choppy playback and audio out of sync
> on 1080i recordings.   Looking at this page:
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> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU
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> I see that the 9400 chipset (equivalent to the ION?) supports "Advanced
> (2x)" only for SD recordings.   Although it's supposed to support "Advanced
> (1x)" for HD content, I get the same choppy playback and out-of-sync audio
> using that.  "Temporal (2x)" seems to work fine.
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> So is there some other setting I need to change in order to get "Advanced
> (2x)" (or even 1x) deinterlacing to work on my AR1600?  What have I missed?
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>        --- Richard
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> Yeah, I'm having similar issues with the HD playback. I finally got my HDHR
> at least playing live TV last night and I noticed it was choppy, presumably
> on the 1080i channels, because some were okay. I'm nearly certain I've seen
> posts say that AR1600 can easily play even 1080p content, that's why I got
> it instead of building a box based on a Zotac 330 dual core board. Getting
> it there has been a bit vague and varied based on some postings that I've
> found.
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> Here's something I found in a newegg comment for the AR1600 of all places.
> Haven't tried it yet. Search the comments for mythTV here
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16883103228>
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> 1) You have to get a version of Myth (0.21 with fixes or the new 0.22) with
> the VDPAU driver built in (PackMan repo if you use OpenSUSE 11.2) 2) Buried
> in one of the sub-screens of TV playback settings, where you create the
> vdpau playback profile, is the deinterlacer setting. You must set this to
> Bob(2x,hw).
> I assume mythbuntu 9.10 satisfies #1, I'll have to look for #2, if you beat
> me to it let me know how it goes. What's your source for HD content?
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I have mythbuntu 9.10, and use VDPAU Normal playback profile and it
works great playing content from HDHomeRun and HDPVR..

The advanced profile will always stutter on this box.  I also notice
that if anything uses the processor, it will hiccup for a second.  I
have not tweaked any knobs and turned off services, etc yet..

-Greg