<div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Peter Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cats22@comcast.net" target="_blank">cats22@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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are a bunch of threads, files, etc. for
getting mythfrontend running on a Raspberry
Pi. But, some of them appear no longer
maintained/updated.
<div>So, I'm wondering what's the current
recommendation for a Pi frontend deployment.</div>
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</span>This page says it's up to date for 0.28</div>
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<div>I had some time to set up a new Pi3 frontend this
weekend. I basically replicated the same experience from
when I tried a little more than a year ago. 1080i was
still not usable for me. It seems like others have this
working.. what am I missing?</div>
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<div>My experience was:</div>
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<div>1. Spent a lot of time debugging. This is a recurring
theme in my long experience with MythTV. I got random
frontend hangs, which I thought were related to video
decoding. But, after much debugging got it down to the
"query_cache" settings in MySQL. Once I disabled that the
frontend became reliable.</div>
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<div>2. US Broadcast MPEG2 @ 720P works great.</div>
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<div>3. US Broadcast MPEG2 @1080i does not work well. I
get video playback, but with frequent audio hiccups and
some video hiccups. The default de-interlacer setting of
'Advanced (HW)' was quite bad. When I changed it to "Fast
(hw)' it worked much better -- but still had audio/video
hiccups.</div>
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<div>MythTV version: 0.28 (up-to-date frontend and backend)</div>
<div>Video Settings: OpenMax normal, Decoder: Openmax,
renderer: openmax, OSD Renderer: OpenGL; Primary
deinterlacer: Fast(HW)</div>
<div>MPEG2 license enabled: verified by command line and CPU
load during playback</div>
<div>Output: HDMI @ 1080P on 4K TV</div>
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<div>Any tips on reliable 1080i MPEG2 playback?</div>
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Did you look at the "System Performance" section in the Raspberry Pi
Page?<br>
<a class="gmail-m_6280151748738118325moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/<wbr>Raspberry_Pi</a><br>
If you still have a problem, try running with -v playback. See if
there are any audio sync errors or other messages displayed.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Thanks! I re-read that and spent some more time getting the Alsa:Default working. I had gotten static with that before and switched to OpenMax:hdmi. I switched to Stereo and made sure all the DD/DTS/etc. options were disabled and Alsa:Default now works and 1080i MPEG2 playback is smooth.</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">With the Pi3, the UI is quite responsive. I'll definitely be giving this a try to replace LibreElec/Kodi that I've been using for the last year.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>