[mythtv-users] playback not smooth regardless of source
Seth Daniel
mythtv.org at sethdaniel.org
Wed Feb 28 05:54:00 UTC 2007
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:03:25PM +0000, Mark Kendall wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Seth Daniel <mythtv.org at sethdaniel.org> wrote:
> > Isn't one of the advantages of using something like MythTV the ability
> > to 'upscale' video? When I watch a DVD on my Zenith DVD player it can
> > upscale to 1080i. People on this list have talked about upscaling *all*
> > of their video. To put it mildly it would be extraordinarily
> > disappointing if I could only watch DVDs at 480p or SD at 480i. I will
> > wonder why I even bothered to build a myth box when I could have just
> > bought a DVR.
>
> I wasn't necessarily assuming you'd use it on a day to day basis -
> just trying to find out what does work for you as a starting point.
>
Sorry, I didn't mean to be petulant. Regardless of the conclusion I
really do appreciate you helping me out.
> It's worth pointing out that it probably doesn't matter whether you're
> display using 480 or 720p/1080i. With the former the tv does the
> scaling, with the latter your video drivers/card do it. In fact, if
> your tv isn't 720p/1080i native resolution it will do additional
> scaling anyway (but probably OT).
>
> The GUI does look much better in 720p though!
You think so? :o) I once went to a presentation put on by a fairly
well known A/V magazine/webzine where the presenter tried to convince us
of the superiority of 720p over 1080i. I remain not entirely convinced.
> > I'll happily send over more logs.
>
> Can you post some using 1080i, no deinterlacing and openglvsync and
> 720p, bobdeint and openglvsync.
http://sethd.org/myth/frontend.1080i.nobob.log
http://sethd.org/myth/frontend.720p.bob.log
http://sethd.org/myth/xorg.conf
http://sethd.org/myth/nvidia-settings-rc
A few observations:
- 1080i w/o deint is awful. No jitter as far as I can tell but other
problems that I don't really know how to describe.
- surprisingly to me 720p with Bob seems to work w/o issue. I recall
watching a ripped DVD at 720p a few weeks back (before I figured out
how to get my TV to 1080i) and it had the same jitter issues I have
seen recently. Now it seems to be fine. This time I tried a ripped
DVD and then watched some HD. No problems in the short time I watched
either of those.
- all tests were with openglsync enabled in the frontend.
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