[mythtv-users] frontend video smoothness

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Tue May 19 13:38:02 UTC 2020


On 19/05/2020 12:08, John Pilkington wrote:
 > On 19/05/2020 08:54, Paul Gardiner wrote:
 >> On 18/05/2020 17:54, John Pilkington wrote:
 >>> And I recently noticed that the leanfront seems to work well with
 >>> live DVB-T mpeg2 material, while recordings now have good audio but
 >>> the video pauses briefly about once a second and sync is terrible...
 >>
 >> That sounds like the TV being driven at the wrong frame rate, either a
 >> 24fps movies played with the TV running at 25fps or vice versa. I'm
 >> finding leanfront really very nice to use these days, but that is one
 >> constant pain, having to do the strange vulcan nerve pinch on the
 >> firestick control to get 24fps.
 >
 >  > Paul G.
 >
 > Yes, for leanfront it might be partially a framerate problem.  Firestick
 > is natively 60 Hz and the content is 25 Hz.  My attempts at logging have
 > given only a few lines, unlike Yeechang's from his Shield.  I'll look
 > out for more options.  The 'live' behaviour came as a surprise.

I just found a forum post suggesting that the Fire Stick 4K wrongly 
switches 25fps content to 24fps: 
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00006zSzsmSAC/fire-tv-stick-4k-framerate-switching-faulty. 
Perhaps the Shield does the same. That would certainly explain a tick 
every second.

P.


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