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

[Dan Wilga]

On 8/19/22 2:41 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks for the suggestion, John, but sadly it didn't help.