[mythtv] Difficulties with FFmpeg and mediacodec

[David Engel]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:33:23PM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/13/2018 11:56 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 06/13/2018 11:36 AM, David Engel wrote:
> > > What you would choose in Setup > Video > Playback > Current Video
> > > Playback Profile.  For example, OpenGL Slim, VAAPI Normal, VDPAU High
> > > Quality, etc.
> > > 
> > > If you didn't do anything here, how are you getting MythTV to use
> > > mediacodec decoding?  Did you just hard code it?
> > Oh sorry that is what you mean. I added an entry "mediacodec" to the
> > decoders selection in playback profile entries. I added OpenGL as render
> > option to that.
> > 
> > I did not yet add a default playback profile for this. You have to
> > create a playback profile (called e.g. test) and add an entry with
> > decoder "mediacodec" and render of OpenGL, and select one of the
> > deinterlace methods available. When it is all working I will add a
> > default playback profile with name mediacodec-normal or similar.
> > 
> > From time to time while developing and testing I switch back to an
> > OpenGL profile that uses ffmpeg to make sure that it still works.
> > 
> > There still seems to be a problem with changes to playback profile not
> > taking immediate effect. I need to track that down. In the meantime I
> > restart the frontend to make sure my playback profile change takes
> > effect.
> > 
> > Peter
> David
> 
> Sorry for my initial slowness to comprehend. I forget that the playback
> profiles are called displayprofiles in the database. I have that in hand so
> you don't need to do anything. Once the actual playback works I will commit
> it all.

Okay.  I'll try to find some other, small tasks to go along with the
EIT bugs I seem to have inherited.

David
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David Engel
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