[mythtv-users] Missing progress bar

[Allen Edwards]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:05 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:11:11 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >I just upgraded my Mythbuntu 16.04.1 fresh install and then tested to see
> >if the progress bar problem had gone away after doing a reboot. This seems
> >to be a problem with VDPAU modes only. I think you will find this
> >interesting and odd.
> >
> >Here is an image of the screen sans progress bar using VDPAU
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/progress1.jpg
> >
> >Here is what I get with my old custom setup. I think this is correct.
> Green
> >progress bar on a blue field.
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/progress2.jpg
> >
> > And here is the odd part.  Going back to VDPAU I get an odd progress bar.
> >It works but the colors are brown on a green field.
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/progress3.jpg
> >Unfortunately, it doesn't stick.
> >
> >For reference, here are the settings of my custom "Allen" setup
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/progress4.jpg
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/progress5.jpg
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/progress6.jpg
> >
> >This behavior is independent of themes.  I have tried MythCenter-Wide 1.7
> >and Terra 1.4
> >I am using 720p to my Sony TV.  Mostly we watch 720p source.  Sometimes we
> >watch 1080i and converting that to 720p is fine and compatible with our
> >projector.
> >
> >Suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >On a side note, I installed 16.04.1 instead of 16.04.5 because of a
> >conflict with my old video card.  I thought that the upgrade I just did
> >would also upgrade that but I don't think it did.  Here is what I did:
> >
> >sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.28
> >sudo apt update
> >sudo apt upgrade
> >
> >And the result
> >http://allen-edwards.com/mythtv/upgrade.txt
> >
> >dad at NewMyth:~$ lsb_release -a
> >No LSB modules are available.
> >Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> >Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
> >Release:        16.04
> >Codename:       xenial
> >
> >
> >PS.  So far swap is 0 (an improvement) but as it grew with time before the
> >upgrade, I will reserve judgement.
> >PPS. Doing the backup on Clonezilla took something like 5 hours yesterday.
> >Much longer than cloning the drive took a few days ago.
> >
> >Allen
>
> Looking at the screenshots you posted triggered a memory - you have
> the "Max CPUs" setting as 1 in your custom setup.  I think that it may
> also be 1 in the default VDPAU setup.  But it should be set to the
> number of CPU cores you have in the VDPAU case.  I seem to remember
> that when I first started using VDPAU, back about 8 or 9 years ago, I
> had some strange things happening until I changed that setting.  So if
> your CPU has more than one core, try changing that setting.
> _______________________________________________
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but it did not help.  Tomorrow I will look and
see if there are other differences between the setup that works and the
VDPAU setup.

Allen
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