[mythtv-users] [mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Lawrence Rust]

On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 16:37 -0500, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> I installed it on Wheezy and it is working!
> 
> The video is a bit jerky, I suspect I may not have the mpeg2 licence
> correctly set up.

For maximum performance setup your RPi for 256MB GPU RAM.  Then create a
custom OpenMAX playback profile using the OpenMAX decoder, OpenMax
renderer using the opengl2 OSD.  Also ensure to select the Advanced
Deinterlacer (HW).

> I am running it from a terminal inside the GUI.  One thing strange,
> after I exit I see it is trying to execute in bash all the keystrokes
> from when I was running mythtv. Temporarily adding a cat after the
> command that runs the frontend to catch those.

Best to run without X.

> When playing a video that is widescreen with 4x3 monitor - there is junk
> left over in the top and bottom bars on the screen which would normally
> be black.

That's an issue that I have on my TODO list.

-- Lawrence Rust