[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

[Andre]

On 23 May 2011, at 17:42, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> If you want to prevent all the "random short pauses" that occur during 
> playback, simply change your Playback Profile group such that you never 
> use VDPAU decoding.  Use ffmpeg decode with VDPAU rendering, and all 
> works well.

Tried this a while ago, even with a C2DQuad at 2.4Ghz software h264 playback is marginal, occasional big pauses, different but no less annoying!

Also how do you get reasonable quality de-interlacing without using vdpau? The software de-interlacers are all terrible!

I tried with a work i7 2.8Ghz machine and software playback was ok but still can only get good picture quality when using vdpau rendering and de-interlacing at which point micro pauses re-appear.

I'll have some time next week (if the Icelandic volcanoes will allow me to get home) to re-do these tests with 0.24.1 also with a local install rather than my nfs boot and report back.

Andre


>  The only pauses you'll see is the at-recording-start/stop 
> pauses (which is a completely separate and unrelated problem).
> 
> Oh, also, I'm not using VDPAU deinterlacing, but I haven't tried whether 
> use of VDPAU deinterlace causes the problems even when using ffmpeg 
> decode (but if so, that would be very valuable information for helping 
> track down the root cause).
> 
> Mike
> 
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