[mythtv-users] Subtitles, HD and NVPAU possible?

[Mark Kendall]

On 18 November 2010 03:25, Keith Edmunds <kae at midnighthax.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:35:34 +0800, mark.kendall at gmail.com said:
>
>> If
>> you're still having issues with 0.24 then you have other problems -
>> your system really should be more than capable
>
> The problem is only exhibited when subtitles are displayed when running
> under VDPAU; subtitles off or profile CPU+ and the problem goes away. This
> is Mythbuntu 10.10, pretty much out of the box; the only additional daemon
> is ssh, which is hardly resource intensive.
>
>> and I'd be worried that
>> buying more hardware may not fix it.
>>
>> Can you cut a 20-30 second clip of problematic video and upload it
>> somewhere?
>
> I don't know how to capture the playback of Myth to a file, but if someone
> can tell me then I'll certainly do this.

I had to be reminded :) -  but this should do the trick:-

dd if=infile of=outfile bs=1024k count=numberofmegsyouwant

and just tailor the size to give a file that easily demonstrates the issue.

regards

Mark