[mythtv-users] Using OpenMax with Raspberry PI frontend and display deinterlacing

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 03/12/2016 11:21 AM, Tim Stowell wrote:
> I would like to playback 1080i content at it's native resolution and
> let my display do the deinterlacing. I noticed with omxplayer there is
> a commit that adds this capability
> (https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer/commit/fe1ca6eba5692e1c6575e318543f0c578481a785))
> I'm not sure how OpenMax is used in the Raspberry frontend, but would
> it be possible to add this functionality?

That would require some investigation. Perhaps you can answer some
questions about this:
Have you tested this on popcornmix omxplayer ?
Have you compared the results with MythTV on Raspberry Pi?
Have you compared the results with MythTV on amd64 or i386?
How much improvement is there?

Peter