[mythtv-users] Attaining Smooth Video Playback with VDPAU

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 28 October 2014 11:24, Greg Grotsky <spikeygg.mythbox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike, I turned on the "separate video modes for GUI and TV playback" but all
> my playback modes are still 1080p. Do I need to hack up the xorg.conf to get
> this working? I tried toggling the "Use GUI size for TV playback" and "Use
> fixed window size" but none of the combinations seem to change the
> resolution on the TV when playing back videos of different sizes. :-/

you don't have to do anything. Just enable it...

But you will get better result with a custom xorg.conf as you can then
differentiate between 23.976Hz and 24Hz in particular