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Hi Roger!<br>
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<pre wrap="">As for the Wiki page re: Frontend Video configuration, yes -- if the
wrong one will either get an error pop up when trying to watch a
show. Thinking because the pausing occurs with all Frontends
connecting to BE2 there's a similar configuration on it (the Backend)
I have wrong; just not going to randomly try things and really screw
it up!
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<pre wrap="">To me it looks more like a player configuration issue.
You've already investigated the connectivity.</pre>
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OK - makes sense. I more or less figured it 'backwards': the FE's
all have the problem so the common point is the BE, in my case
"BE2". <br>
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<pre wrap="">The playback profiles are still different
For BE1a:
2017-11-04 09:44:36.548697 I VDP: Accepting: cmp(>= 1920 1080)
dec(ffmpeg) cpus(2) skiploop(enabled) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend)
osdfade(enabled) deint(linearblend,linearblend) filt()
2017-11-04 09:44:36.548697 I VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 0 0) dec(ffmpeg)
cpus(1) skiploop(enabled) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend) osdfade(enabled)
deint(yadifdoubleprocessdeint,yadifdeint) filt()
2017-11-04 09:44:36.548697 I AFD: Using 2 CPUs for decoding
For BE2:
2017-11-04 08:19:01.428571 I VDP: Accepting: cmp(>= 1280 720)
dec(ffmpeg) cpus(1) skiploop(enabled) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend)
osdfade(disabled) deint(linearblend,linearblend) filt()
2017-11-04 08:19:01.428571 I VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 0 0) dec(ffmpeg)
cpus(1) skiploop(enabled) rend(xv-blit) osd(softblend) osdfade(enabled)
deint(greedyhdoubleprocessdeint,kerneldeint) filt()
2017-11-04 08:19:01.428571 I AFD: Using 1 CPUs for decoding
Will an extra CPU make a difference ? ("Max CPUs" setting)
It's in the right area (video decoding)
According to the (old) Wiki it defaults to 1. Maybe you increased it
when setting up BE1.</pre>
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Quite possibly: pretty much used the "Gedakc Guide": <br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font face="DejaVu
Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404">http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404</a>
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Downloaded it some time ago and made notations to somewhat update to
16.04 and things to do/not do here. (So a big 'thank you!' to
Curtis' work!)<br>
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Now the problem is I can't find where the configuration for two
CPU's (both/all cores) is. His Section X: Configure MythTV Backend
> General > <font size="-1"><code class="western">Max
simultaneous jobs on this backend: 2</code></font> is set for
two. But that's jobs and not cores. (More or less talking to
myself to try to sort things out.) Find "core" - nope. Find "cpu"
- nope. "Processor" - nope. <br>
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...OK. I'm going to give up and ask where that setting is.
(Help!!) Will that also do something about that
"greedyhdoubleprosessdeint" thing? Someone mentioned it before as a
lead. No idea what it is (something to do with video
de-interlacing? Sort of get some of the funny names assigned by the
programmers. :) ).<br>
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<pre wrap="">(So also realizing my comment the other day about a script or
something to more easily swap between the two Backends is more
complicated that just copying in the two config.xml files.)
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<pre wrap="">Presumably you'll planning to copy your BE1 database to BE2 at
some point ("switchover time").
Provided you're not planning to change any hostnames, then that will
also synchronize the configuration of all your frontends.
I'm guessing atm BE2 is just using defaults and thus you're comparing
apples & pears. Or rediscovering all the little tweaks you'd forgotten
about.
Any reason you can't take a snapshot of the BE1 database now ? You can
always dump it later when you switchover for real.
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Actually I'm going to take the lazy way out and just retire the old
Backend (BE1). Years ago tried to copy the database from the
then-active machine to the machine I was creating and, well, we'll
just say it wasn't pretty. I ended up starting from scratch on the
replacement system. LIS this was years ago.<br>
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So thanks for the lead on the configuring to use both cores, just
need to know where that setting is hidden. <br>
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