[mythtv-users] 32/fixes frontend has very slow playback on ION

[John Pilkington]

On 19/08/2022 18:15, Dan Wilga wrote:
> To add some data, I did some more testing with " -v 
> playback,osd,libav,gui,gpuvideo,gpuaudio,gpu,general". I came across 
> this line just before a 30-second lag in the log, where nothing was 
> happening onscreen:
> 
>    OpenGL: Src: API Type: Other Msg: Software processing fallback in 
> rasterization. Blending is not hardware accelerated with ALPHA formats.
> 
> Perhaps it's relevant, I don't know. But it seems to me that if OpenGL 
> is having trouble with alpha-channel graphics that might also explain 
> why GUI menu transitions are slower than they were with v31.
> 

I have no idea if this is relevant, but for systems without Nvidia 
hardware or other gpus I use  'MYTHTV_NO_EGL=1 mythfrontend'  (or for 
*buntu mythfrontend.real) and get playback that isn't entirely smooth 
but seems acceptable to me.   That's with 2-core and > 2GHz, HD, master 
or 32/fixes.

John P