[mythtv-users] Subtitles, HD and NVPAU possible?

[Mark Kendall]

On 13 November 2010 21:19, Keith Edmunds <kae at midnighthax.com> wrote:
> Requirement: front end that will display HD (1080p) and subtitles without
> problems. Ideally with a conservative power consumption, but picture
> quality and audio/visual sync are more important.
>
> As part of a recent thread ("Slight stutter on playback, 0.23 on ION
> 330HT"), I have found that NVPAU and subtitles causes some stuttering and
> a loss of visual/audio synchronisation on the ION330. The wiki page
> (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU#What_doesn.27t.3F) states, "Video may
> stutter when the OSD or closed captioning is used."
>
> As my wife is deaf, I need to find a front-end that will display HD with
> subtitles without problems; as I'm not deaf, audio/visual synchronisation
> is also necessary.

The code that displays the OSD has been entirely re-written for 0.24
and should be much more efficient for OpenGL, Direct3D and VDPAU
playback. An ION/330 based system was one of the test machines for the
new code and any similar system *should* be capable of full 1080p
playback with medium quality deinterlacing and any form of
captioning/subtitling (and should smoothly fade the OSD as well -
though not relevant to captions).

So if you haven't done so, any upgrade to 0.24 might be worth a try.

regards

Mark