[mythtv-users] Troubleshooting video problems on my combined FE/BE

[Jerry]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I'm finding that constant swapping between progressive and interlaced very
> odd. Do you get those messages on the non-stuttering frontend? Does the
> recording play stutter free on the main frontend if you use another player
> like VLC? What does mediainfo say about the file?
>
> It is not uncommon for the format to change at commercial breaks and the
> like but the messages above seem to indicate it is changing every few
> seconds and sometimes every few frames!
>

I began writing this email about two hours ago with all of my efforts.
Basically, when I hooked up my FE/BE to my analog KVM and then directly to
my usual computer monitor, the stuttering went away in all programs I
tried.  I was getting stuttering in Kodi, Plex Home Theater, Myth videos,
I'm sure everywhere else, too.

I finally started looking at settings on the TV.  I wound up changing the
Game Mode setting to On.  The TV says there is a reduction in image
quality, but I can't see it.  The stuttering seems to have gone away.  I
can't find it now, so I am satisfied.

So if you have a Samsung later model TV and you experience stuttering, try
setting Game Mode to On.

Should I put this in the wiki somewhere?

Thanks to Mark and Hika for the help!
Jerry
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