[mythtv-users] Viktor's Bob deint patch for interlaced modelines

[Seth Daniel]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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> > I run HEAD so my setup isn't _exactly_ like yours.  Should you upgrade to
> > 0.21 the first thing you will probably want to do is get rid of all of
> > the new playback profiles that are created.
> 
> Actually, better would be to do as suggested on the wiki page--leave the 
> example profile groups for reference and create a new profile group 
> (i.e. 'Custom XvMC Simple' or whatever).

I don't know why deleting the profiles I don't need or use would be
'worse' than keeping than around.  I know what I need.  I need one
profile that uses exactly one deinterlacer.  What advantage do I have if
I keep around the other profiles?


> >   Why?  Well, I discovered that new profiles were created: High
> >   Quality, Low Quality, ...  The old profiles still existed also:
> >   cpu++, cpu--, etc...  I kept updating cpu++ assuming it was the
> >   profile being used...I was wrong.  I started seeing a performance
> >   degradation in my playback and it turns out this was because the
> >   'High Quality' profile was being used.
> 
> If your profile group specifies no valid profiles, Myth will fall back
> to using whatever will work (which may, in fact, be similar to the
> setting in High Quality).

Fascinating, but ultimately very frustrating. :-)    

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