[mythtv-users] easy way to switch between playback profiles?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jan 29 07:34:37 UTC 2010


On 01/29/2010 02:04 AM, Mike wrote:
> I have a mythdora 5 box that has been running for some time now.  I
> have XvMC working with my nvidia 5200 card for OTA HDTV playback on a
> P4 processor and it works well.
>
> I use the mythvideo for xvid playback using "ffmpeg & Xvideo" software
> decoding and that also works well.
>
> Trouble I have is finding a playback profile that works good for both
> of them.  Right now if I want to do xvid I navigate thru the setup
> menus and change the profile to ffmpeg & Xvideo ... if I want to
> playback OTA HDTV w/o stuttering I navigate thru the menus and set the
> profile to use XvMC as I need the hardware decode with the P4 (this
> works good for every channel including channel 10 but audio only for
> xvid's with this profile) ...
>
> If I make a "combo" profile where XvMC is selected for anything higher
> than 720x576 and "ffmpeg & Xvideo" is used for anything less than
> 720x576 then channel 10 will go to a black screen during playback of
> recordings, no audio, with the hard drive light on solid.  The box
> will temporarily lock up if I hit any key besides escape for things I
> try to playback that were recorded on channel 10.  All other channels
> work fine in this combo mode and mythvideo xvid's are also fine.
>
> I use a wireless keyboard to control mythtv and I have a learning
> remote that has learned keys from that wireless keyboard so ideally it
> would be cool to push a button to switch between the profiles instead
> of navigating thru many levels of menu heirarchy to do what is
> required in my situation ...
>
> any suggestions appreciated
>   

Doesn't help you, yet, but there is talk of adding another criterion for
playback profile usage to allow specifying CODEC.

Mike


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