<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:13 AM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:22:41 +0000, you wrote:<br>
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>Now the next problem - the frontend runs extremely choppy. Never had this<br>
>issue on the 0.27/fixes one. Same movies come as if watching via RDP!<br>
><br>
>I can post the required logs - i know there was a way I read earlier to get<br>
>logs - enter something along with "mythfrontend -v" command..<br>
><br>
>(I hope this isn't a hardware issue - not sure if 0.29 takes more compute<br>
>than the 0.27)<br>
<br>
I can tell you that 0.29 runs just as well as 0.27 on the same<br>
hardware. I think your problem will just be that you do not have the<br>
right playback setup yet.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am using the same hardware that my 0.27 was running without any problem.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Did you copy across your old database and upgrade it? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>No - i just made a brand new install on a seperate SSD drive for my frontend. Being that it's a frontend - not sure if it had any DB on it - maybe I am wrong. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is your<br>
frontend using the same hostname as your old frontend? The frontend<br>
database settings are all per hostname, so if you are using a new<br>
frontend hostname, or a completely new database, then you will have<br>
only the default settings for playback. Which probably means no use<br>
of accelerated GPU processing. So you will need to set it all up<br>
again. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hostname is different. I checked my playback setting. Here's what I noticed. First - i did the "high definiton" test from the sample video that is included - and it plays choppy. </div><div>I set the playback same as I had on my 0.27 - VDPAU slim. However, no luck. I changed it to Auto - and still no luck. </div><div><br></div><div>Another issue (non-issue at this stage - will bring it up as i progress here) is the audio. When I do test - the center channel plays on my surround rear speaker. But I digress. The choppy video is what makes this a show stopper here for now.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> If it is an older CPU, then it will not be able to cope with<br>
playing modern video without the acceleration. What sort of video<br>
card is it? What sort of CPU?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Atom ION zotac. However, like i said, I have 0.27 on another drive and it works perfectly. RAM - 4 Gb</div><div><br></div><div> lscpu</div><div>Architecture: x86_64</div><div>CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit</div><div>Byte Order: Little Endian</div><div>CPU(s): 2</div><div>On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1</div><div>Thread(s) per core: 2</div><div>Core(s) per socket: 1</div><div>Socket(s): 1</div><div>NUMA node(s): 1</div><div>Vendor ID: GenuineIntel</div><div>CPU family: 6</div><div>Model: 28</div><div>Model name: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz</div><div>Stepping: 2</div><div>CPU MHz: 1600.015</div><div>BogoMIPS: 3200.03</div><div>Hypervisor vendor: vertical</div><div>Virtualization type: full</div><div>L1d cache: 24K</div><div>L1i cache: 32K</div><div>L2 cache: 512K</div><div>NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1</div><div>Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_ tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm</div><div> </div></div></div>