[mythtv-users] [SOLVED] i915 IvyBridge issues with DRM playback

[Steve Magnani]

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 21:43 -0500, Steve Magnani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running 0.27 built from the GIT source, on a laptop with one of the
> IvyBridge i915 variants (PCI ID 0x0166). This is a remote frontend
> running Fedora 18.
> 
> Until a few weeks ago, playback of recorded TV was fine, except that the
> very first recording I attempted to play would grind horribly (extremely
> jerky and not at all viewable). If I <ESC>d out of this mode, subsequent
> playbacks would be fine. 
> 
> This was with Fedora kernel 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64.
> 
> Then Fedora released a kernel upgrade, to 3.10.10-100. In this new,
> improved world, playback seems to run at the same speed whether it's the
> first attempt or not. 

To close out this thread - the problem disappeared with an upgrade to
Fedora 19 (kernel 3.11.1-200.fc19.x86_64). So I'm guessing that means
there were bugs in the 3.9 and 3.10 i915 driver that were addressed in
3.11.

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