[mythtv-users] VDPAU playback profiles

[Tom Hayward]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Marco Quezada <mellamanjefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides upgrading the video drivers to the latest version (350.xx i think) i
> also noticed from the logs that myth was using usleep for timing. I was able
> to get the RTC working with myth and the playback is very smooth and in sync
> with the sound. I do remember now though that the playback in .24 was not as
> smooth as it is now, I kept having to manually synchronize the audio with
> the video in each show. Have you tried looking into this with your system?
>
> So VDPAU HQ was not completely smooth in .24 but was playable, unlike .25.
> The VDPAU Normal profile I use now looks and sounds great, I'm guessing some
> underlying library update in the OS caused the change.

Thanks for the tip. This pointed me in the right direction. I read the
article here:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frame_display_timing

and now Mythfrontend can access /dev/rtc. With rtc frame timing the
audio dropouts are much less frequent. I can run VDPAU Normal again!

Tom