<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 2:19 PM Ken Mandelberg <<a href="mailto:km@mathcs.emory.edu">km@mathcs.emory.edu</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">
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<div>James Abernathy wrote on 3/9/22 21:00:<br>
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<div>This was discussed on the mythtv forum (link below). But here
is a quick summary.</div>
<div>use this command:</div>
<div> QT_QPA_EGLFS_ALWAYS_SET_MODE="1" QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs
QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_CONFIG=./pi_mythfrontend.json mythfrontend
--noupnp --logpath /tmp</div>
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<div>and create ./pi_mythfrontend.json:</div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(46,139,87);font-family:Monaco,"Andale Mono","Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:11.7px;white-space:pre-wrap">{
"device": "/dev/dri/by-path/platform-gpu-card",
"outputs": [
{ "name": "HDMI1", "mode": "1920x1080@60" }
]
}</span><br>
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<div>Jim A</div>
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<p><font face="monospace">This gave me good results for the GUI and
standard definition on my rpi3B (not plus).</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">This included the wiki suggestions of
adding the mpg license, raising gpu_mem to 256, using V4L2, and
adding</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">echo "performance" |sudo tee
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">The problem is that almost all my
recordings come from Xfinity (USA) hdhomerun, and are high def.
These recording skip too much to be really usable.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">Other than that there are some references
in the Wiki I'm unclear on. There is UK reference for playback
profile changes, and a suggestion to use OpenMax for playback
(which doesn't work at all for me).</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">Have I just reached the limit of a 3B?</font></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's hard enough to get the RPI4 right so I have not attempted anything on the RPI3B+. I've completely retired both my RPI3B+'s and concentrated on RPI4 which at this point is very good. </div><div>In fact I don't even use the RPIB+ for a Pi-Hole ad blocker. When I built an IOTstack for environmental monitoring around the house, I included the Docker container for Pi-Hole in that stackup. </div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div></div></div>