[mythtv-users] Latest MythTV Builds running on nVidia ION

[David Watkins]

On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 08:41, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been running a combined backend/frontend on an nVidia ION since v21.
> With onboard hardware decoding and VDPAU it was quite a neat solution in
> its day.
>
> It's currently running Fedora 32 with the nVidia 340 graphics driver
> (which is the latest available for the hardware)
>
> MythTV was an pre-release (master) version of v32 (since it was working OK
> I didn't move to the release version).
>
> I recently got the urge to try an upgrade....
>
> Initially I tried v35/fixes but that asked for a Qt upgrade and I didn't
> fancy going down that rabbit hole so I went with v33/fixes.
>
> The upgrade went smoothly but now the frontend has severe graphics
> issues.  The menus are slow (perhaps there's some transitions I can turn
> off?) and playback immediately stalls with* 'Decoder timed out waiting
> for free video buffers'*.  Google finds several others with the same
> issue but no solutions.
>
> Obviously I need to upgrade the hardware and that's in hand.  In the
> meantime I may rollback to v32 or try leanfront on a borrowed Firestick,
> but as a quick fix I thought I'd ask if anyone is successfully running v33
> or higher with the nVidia 340 driver on an ION?  Maybe there's a magic
> playback setting I haven't tried?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
I've discovered that if I change the hardware decoder from 'VPAU
Acceleration' to 'VDPAU Acceleration (Decode only)' then video plays again.

Video quality appears the same at first glance.
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