[mythtv-users] Indoor HD antenna question

[John Pilkington]

On 19/04/18 17:27, Ashu Desai wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:13 AM Stephen Worthington 
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:22:41 +0000, you wrote:
> 
>      >Now the next problem - the frontend runs extremely choppy. Never
>     had this
>      >issue on the 0.27/fixes one. Same movies come as if watching via RDP!
>      >
>      >I can post the required logs - i know there was a way I read
>     earlier to get
>      >logs - enter something along with "mythfrontend -v" command..
>      >
>      >(I hope this isn't a hardware issue - not sure if 0.29 takes more
>     compute
>      >than the 0.27)
> 
>     I can tell you that 0.29 runs just as well as 0.27 on the same
>     hardware.  I think your problem will just be that you do not have the
>     right playback setup yet.
> 
> 
> I am using the same hardware that my 0.27 was running without any problem.
> 
>     Did you copy across your old database and upgrade it? 
> 
> 
> No - i just made a brand new install on a seperate SSD drive for my 
> frontend. Being that it's a frontend - not sure if it had any DB on it - 
> maybe I am wrong.
> 
>     Is your
>     frontend using the same hostname as your old frontend?  The frontend
>     database settings are all per hostname, so if you are using a new
>     frontend hostname, or a completely new database, then you will have
>     only the default settings for playback.  Which probably means no use
>     of accelerated GPU processing.  So you will need to set it all up
>     again. 
> 
> 
> Hostname is different. I checked my playback setting. Here's what I 
> noticed. First - i did the "high definiton" test from the sample video 
> that is included - and it plays choppy.
> I set the playback same as I had on my 0.27 - VDPAU slim. However, no 
> luck. I changed it to Auto - and still no luck.
> 
> Another issue (non-issue at this stage - will bring it up as i progress 
> here) is the audio. When I do test - the center channel plays on my 
> surround rear speaker. But I digress. The choppy video is what makes 
> this a show stopper here for now.
> 
>     If it is an older CPU, then it will not be able to cope with
>     playing modern video without the acceleration.  What sort of video
>     card is it?  What sort of CPU?
> 
> 
> Atom ION zotac. However, like i said, I have 0.27 on another drive and 
> it works perfectly.  RAM - 4 Gb
> 
>   lscpu
> Architecture:          x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order:            Little Endian
> CPU(s):                2
> On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
> Thread(s) per core:    2
> Core(s) per socket:    1
> Socket(s):             1
> NUMA node(s):          1
> Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
> CPU family:            6
> Model:                 28
> Model name:            Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  230   @ 1.60GHz
> Stepping:              2
> CPU MHz:               1600.015
> BogoMIPS:              3200.03
> Hypervisor vendor:     vertical
> Virtualization type:   full
> L1d cache:             24K
> L1i cache:             32K
> L2 cache:              512K
> NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1
> Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr 
> pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall 
> nx lm constant_                                                          
>                                                      tsc arch_perfmon 
> pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr 
> pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
> 
If you're trying to use VDPAU you surely ought to have an nVidia driver. 
  That is usually got from the rpmfusion non-free repo.  i haven't used 
them under el7 but the 390.48 works well for me - but not on an Atom.