[mythtv-users] PIP unwatchable on i5-2400 built in HD2000

[steve]

> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Peter Bennett (cats22) <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On 02/17/2016 05:53 PM, stevenospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> Can anyone confirm that PIP is working fine for them?  Especially if you are using the HDHomerun Prime?
>> 
>> Thank you 
> I have never managed to get it to work. With VDPAU on my Nvidia the PIP
> picture just shows wavy lines. With Normal or Slim setting I see what
> you are seeing, everything slowed down. Anyway, my wife hates PIP, so it
> is no problem for me that it does not work.
> 
> HDHomerun Prime is not relevant, the problem is on the frontend.
> 
> Peter
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Thanks.   

Very informative and I am surprised you are just getting just wavy lines with VDPAU so I guess that confirms PIP is broken in the frontend.   

Is this something that has been already reported to a bug tracking database?

I had mentioned HDHomeRun Prime + Comcast because I thought the PIP problems might be related to the type of video (perhaps 2 simultaneous 720p/1080i streams was straining the Intel HD 2000 GPU more than it could handle,  and perhaps a GT 730 better GPU could).

Right now I am just trialing MythTV, seeing if I can migrate from Windows Media Center.  

My original plan was to try to watch MythTV entirely through Kodi and its myth.pvr plugin-- but got excited when I saw that the MythTV FE had PIP, a feature we remember being sold on the very high end TV's of the 80's.  

However a significant downside would been to figure out how to keep the WAF high while switching user interfaces between Kodi and MythTV FE.   So in a way this simplifies things.