[mythtv-users] Missing progress bar

[Allen Edwards]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:26 PM Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
>

This is definitely a VDPAU issue.  I have been running 720p as I have
said.  I changed that to 1080p and the progress bar works just fine. The
only problem with this is that the projector is 720p.  That means I need to
figure out how to use the DVI output to run the projector.

This is what I need:
1) VGA to a monitor not running Myth
2) HCMI to the TV at 1080p running Myth
3) DVI to the projector at 720p running Myth.

Is this possible?

Allen
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