[mythtv-users] VDPAU, Trunk, and the Vanishing EPG

[Christopher Meredith]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
> Mark Kendall wrote:
>> 2009/5/9 Christopher Meredith <chmeredith at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> First off, I apologize if this isn't the place to talk about the
>>> development branch. If I should head elsewhere, fee free to give me a
>>> shove.
>>>
>>> Anyway, in an attempt to get the HD-PVR and VDPAU under the same
>>> umbrella, I grabbed 0.22 (trunk) from SVN and am now running r20509.
>>> It's working great! I get live TV through the HDPVR and it is very
>>> stable so far. I only have one problem. When using the VDPAU renderer,
>>> the EPG is practically invisible. I press "s" and the EPG comes up,
>>> but only the text in the upper right corner is visible. If I use the
>>> arrow keys to navigate, portions of the menu become visible for only a
>>> split second. The EPG basically flickers when navigated. It is,
>>> however, unusable. The main video window continues to play
>>> uninterrupted. It is possible to use the EPG to select other channels,
>>> it's just nearly impossible to actually see it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Christopher
>>
>> Can you raise a ticket on trac, with the same description and provide
>> as much information as you can about your setup (distro, card, driver
>> etc etc). A frontend log using -v playback might also help.
>>
>> I've not seen this and I've not seen mention of it elsewhere, though
>> I've been offline for a while.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> I  see the problem when using the Qt painter and the VDPAU video
> renderer together.
>
> The strange thing is I get the problem right after mythfrontend is
> started but if I go to the 'Appearance' settings page and move through
> all the settings pages not changing anything but click finish on the
> last page which forces a theme reload then everything will work fine
> until mythfrontend is restarted again.  So it would seem it's fixable
> it's just working out what's different after everything is reloaded.

I can confirm this. Switching to OpenGL painter solved the problem.
Also forcing reload of the theme while using QT painter also solves
the problem, at least while running that instance of the frontend.