[mythtv-users] Incorrect playback profile selected.

[Matt Doran]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> I must be missing something but here's what's going on...
>
> It appears that the wrong playback profile is getting picked. I am
> playing 1080i content from my HDHomerun and I can sift through the log
> to see "VDP: Accepting.." etc on both the playback profiles (Slim with
> quartz ones removed). But I can't tell what lines let's me know which
> profile was chosen.
>
> It was driving me mad because I went all the way back to the one field
> deinterlacer to try and get smooth playback (which has worked well
> before) on the >= 1280 x 720 profile but nothing I did had any effect.
> It would play a few frames and freeze, skipping forward would "break
> it loose" for another few frames and if would freeze again.
>
> On a whim I changed the deinterlacer on my "rez > 0 0" profile segment
> and it suddenly started to work! Now I've even added the second
> qualifier to the > 0 0 profile so now it's supposed to exclude
> anything 720 or greater (< 1280 x 720) but it's still choosing that
> profile!
>
>
>   
Is this only happening when you view live TV?   If so, you might be 
hitting the issue I found a few days ago.   

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5025

Does this sound like it?

When I was investigating this problem, I too found the logs a bit 
confusing.  It would be nice if the logs included a clear statement 
about which was selected.

Regards,
Matt