[mythtv-users] Comcast MP4 and VDA/VDPAU

[Phil Bridges]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at columbia.edu> wrote:

> Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> says:
> > I posted it here http://www.filetolink.com/4bd9ced67e and started a
> > ticket https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12546
>
> Phil, I tried your clip (the second one from Google Drive, not the
> broken first one from filetolink), and it doesn't show captions for me
> either.
>
> I noticed that the clip on a Mac 0.26 frontend does not trigger VDA
> hardware-accelerated playback. In my experience VDA supports a much
> smaller number of encodings than Nvidia VDPAU, so this isn't the first
> such. (It does support HD-PVR recordings, no doubt the largest single
> source of h.264/MP4 content for MythTV.)  My VDPAU frontend is down at
> the moment; in your experience, does VDPAU support Comcast's MP4
> channels?
>
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I would think that it would, but even if I VNC in (and don't use VDPAU), I
get no captions.  None are listed in the on-screen menu, either.
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