[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi deinterlacing

Peter Bennett cats22 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 22 17:54:22 UTC 2017


There has been a problem for some time with hardware deinterlacing on 
Raspberry Pi. The problem arose starting with firmware version #897, 
released July 8 2016. There is now a fix in MythTV.

MythTV versions prior to v0.28.1-34 will deinterlace correctly with 
firmware versions up to #896. MythTV versions v0.28.1-34 on will 
deinterlace correctly with firmware versions #897 and higher.

You can check your firmware version with uname -a

You can upgrade your Raspberry Pi jessie firmware to the latest stable 
version using "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt dist-upgrade". Currently 
this will install version #998.

I have updated the package download of MythTV-light so that the new 
version will be downloaded.

If you have previously changed your deinterlace setting to get around 
the deinterlace problem you can change it back to "Advanced(HW)" for the 
best results after installing the latest versions of MythTV and firmware.

Peter



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