[mythtv-users] Missing progress bar

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:01:20 -0700, you wrote:

>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

I would think so.  I would expect that a 730 card would be able to run
at least two outputs at once, either independently or as one joined
workspace.  Running three at once might or might not be possible -
does your 730 card have three separate outputs?  Does its DVI output
(if it has one) have the analogue pins?  Is it a DVI-D (no analogue
pins) or a DVI-I (with analogue pins)?  What adapters came with it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/221/~/difference-between-dvi-i-and-dvi-d

With the right /etc/xorg.conf configuration, each separate output
should be able to be made a separate display.  If you do not have
enough outputs, you may need to switch the configuration to swap
between the projector and TV on the same output.  You may be able to
do that simply by using the "-display" and/or "-geometry" options on
the mythfrontend command line.  Or you may need to restart X using a
different configuration.  You can restart X quite easily if you are
set up to use the lightdm display manager (which is the default for
xubuntu), by doing an "sudo systemctl restart lightdm".  You could do
from a batch file that also changed the xorg.conf file.  I am not sure
if restarting the display manager works if you are using the gdm
display manager (the default for Ubuntu).  But you can change the
display manager if necessary.

To find which display manager you are using, do this:

ps -e | grep dm