[mythtv-users] Indoor HD antenna question

[Ashu Desai]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 19/04/18 17:27, Ashu Desai wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:13 AM Stephen Worthington
> > <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:22:41 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >      >Now the next problem - the frontend runs extremely choppy. Never
> >     had this
> >      >issue on the 0.27/fixes one. Same movies come as if watching via
> RDP!
> >      >
> >      >I can post the required logs - i know there was a way I read
> >     earlier to get
> >      >logs - enter something along with "mythfrontend -v" command..
> >      >
> >      >(I hope this isn't a hardware issue - not sure if 0.29 takes more
> >     compute
> >      >than the 0.27)
> >
> >     I can tell you that 0.29 runs just as well as 0.27 on the same
> >     hardware.  I think your problem will just be that you do not have the
> >     right playback setup yet.
> >
> >
> > I am using the same hardware that my 0.27 was running without any
> problem.
> >
> >     Did you copy across your old database and upgrade it?
> >
> >
> > No - i just made a brand new install on a seperate SSD drive for my
> > frontend. Being that it's a frontend - not sure if it had any DB on it -
> > maybe I am wrong.
> >
> >     Is your
> >     frontend using the same hostname as your old frontend?  The frontend
> >     database settings are all per hostname, so if you are using a new
> >     frontend hostname, or a completely new database, then you will have
> >     only the default settings for playback.  Which probably means no use
> >     of accelerated GPU processing.  So you will need to set it all up
> >     again.
> >
> >
> > Hostname is different. I checked my playback setting. Here's what I
> > noticed. First - i did the "high definiton" test from the sample video
> > that is included - and it plays choppy.
> > I set the playback same as I had on my 0.27 - VDPAU slim. However, no
> > luck. I changed it to Auto - and still no luck.
> >
> > Another issue (non-issue at this stage - will bring it up as i progress
> > here) is the audio. When I do test - the center channel plays on my
> > surround rear speaker. But I digress. The choppy video is what makes
> > this a show stopper here for now.
> >
> >     If it is an older CPU, then it will not be able to cope with
> >     playing modern video without the acceleration.  What sort of video
> >     card is it?  What sort of CPU?
> >
> >
> > Atom ION zotac. However, like i said, I have 0.27 on another drive and
> > it works perfectly.  RAM - 4 Gb
> >
> >   lscpu
> > Architecture:          x86_64
> > CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> > Byte Order:            Little Endian
> > CPU(s):                2
> > On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
> > Thread(s) per core:    2
> > Core(s) per socket:    1
> > Socket(s):             1
> > NUMA node(s):          1
> > Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
> > CPU family:            6
> > Model:                 28
> > Model name:            Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  230   @ 1.60GHz
> > Stepping:              2
> > CPU MHz:               1600.015
> > BogoMIPS:              3200.03
> > Hypervisor vendor:     vertical
> > Virtualization type:   full
> > L1d cache:             24K
> > L1i cache:             32K
> > L2 cache:              512K
> > NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1
> > Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
> > pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
> > nx lm constant_
> >                                                      tsc arch_perfmon
> > pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr
> > pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
> >
> If you're trying to use VDPAU you surely ought to have an nVidia driver.
>   That is usually got from the rpmfusion non-free repo.  i haven't used
> them under el7 but the 390.48 works well for me - but not on an Atom.
>

I will do that - i do remember having nVidia on my 0.27 so maybe that's the
missing piece. It can't be the hardware if it's working flawlessly on my
0.27.
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