[mythtv] Raspberry Pi 2 and OpenGL

[Curtis Gedak]

Hi Peter,

I agree with your description of the state of MythTV on Raspberry Pi 2.

Only recently did I figure out how to get LVR's script to compile your
raspi/0.27 git branch and include all of the myth plugins that were in
LVR's original tarballs.

I think your current path of concentrating on the xcb version is the way
to go for now.

Hopefully LVR will join in the mythfrontend discussions soon.

Regards,
Curtis

On 16-03-15 08:38 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> MythTV on the Raspberry Pi 2 can run in two QT QPA PLATFORM modes: xcb
> which runs under X, eglfs which runs from the command line without X
> 
> AFAIK OpenGL is not supported in xcb mode, and is supported in eglfs mode.
> 
> In xcb mode the only way of displaying the OSD is using "softmerge".
> This was causing slowdown of playback and audio interruptions. I have
> made a few optimizations, now it plays smoothly most of the time when
> OSD is displayed. If the OSD takes up 50% or more of the display area
> (e.g. The Info OSD in the MythCenter theme), there are occasional brief
> cutouts of audio.
> 
> In xcb mode if you build with opengl and enable opengl for OSD, you get
> a blank screen, no playback of video occurs.
> 
> If eglfs mode the OSD does not have any affect on the playback if OpenGL
> OSD is selected. Playback continues uninterrupted.
> 
> Using the mythbuild.sh cross-compile script from LVR (3300 lines) it is
> possible to build a package with mythtv executables and a private custom
> built version of QT5, that can be deployed in a directory and works in
> eglfs mode. I believe that he had created the private QT5 build because
> Raspbian wheezy only had QT 4.
> 
> I have tried enabling opengl and building on raspberry pi 2 using Ubuntu
> mate wily, which comes with QT 5.4.2. Running this from command line
> with the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs setting results in an abort with the
> following message
> EGL Error : Could not create the egl surface: error = 0x300b
> 
> I have tried to replicate the configure settings used by LVR in his
> script, but I have been unable to get past that error. Google searches
> have failed to provide a solution.
> 
> I am not comfortable using the 3300 line script provided by LVR. It does
> undesirable things like downloading files from LVR's web site and
> applying patches. It only supports wheezy and jessie. The package
> created cannot be deployed in standard fashion, into standard
> directories, because of the private QT5 build involved. Maybe somebody
> can figure out the magic thing it does that enables eglfs to work. Or
> perhaps eglfs just does not work with ubuntu mate.
> 
> I will concentrate on the xcb version with opengl disabled. The way the
> OSD works seems good enough.
> 
> Peter
>