[mythtv-users] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 11/17/2015 02:24 PM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> If anyone would like to try it and provide some feedback then checkout
> the fixes-0.27-rpi2 branch from here:
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/git/mythtv.git
>
>
I have done some more testing and I now have this set up on my kitchen
TV. It is working great and perfectly usable. Some issues I noticed:

1. Video is jerky and audio is interrupted when running stand alone
(QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs). It works fine (no jerkiness) under xwindows
(QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb). So I am using it with xwindows. Following
observations are in  that environment.
2. If you try to compensate for tv overscan by making the picture
smaller in /boot/config.txt or by using appearance setup in the mythtv
frontend setup, the video is shown at the requested smaller size but the
offset is not used, so a small video comes at the top left hand side of
the screen instead of centered. This only affects video playback, the
GUI menus and lists honor the settings correctly. You can make the video
smaller using the zoom feature while playing and that works correctly.
3. If you pull up the menu while playing a recording (M key) or other
OSD displays such as Info (I key), the video becomes jerky while the OSD
is displayed.
4. Subtitles do not work. You can select them but they do not display.

Great job. I hope we can get this in the official build. The above are
minor issues and if they are restrictions that will be OK in my opinion.

Peter