[mythtv-users] Unnecessary mode changes

[Paul Gardiner]

On 06/04/2013 04:42, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:
>>>>>> Paul Gardiner writes:
>> On 05/04/2013 19:40, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> [...]
>>> Perhaps this has some useful information for you:
>>>
>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9133
>
>> That's certainly evidence that I didn't imagine that it used to avoid
>> unnecessary mode changes. That was one of the things that impressed me,
>> that returning to the GUI avoided a mode change independent of the
>> frame rate of the movie you'd just played. Also 2 years ago is probably
>> around the time that I saw that good behaviour.  Doesn't work for me
>> now, and I do have "Any" selected.
>
>
>          Did you upgrade nVidia drivers?  I also have "Any" selected for
> the GUI refresh rate and I seem to recall that an upgrade of nVidia
> drivers is what caused my MythTV system to start making unnecessary mode
> changes -- something about the way the new drivers supplied video mode
> information.

I've upgraded nVidia drivers many times since then, so that certainly
would explain it.

>          I've been using the attached patch to fix the problem.
> Unfortunately, I can't remember now whether I actually found a problem
> in the myth code or whether this was just a workaround.

Great. Do you have that in a trac ticket somewhere?

Cheers,
	Paul.