[mythtv-users] Video quality on 0.28 worse than it was on 0.21

[Allen Edwards]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 7:29 AM, John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 25/08/18 14:39, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>
>> On 25/08/18 14:05, Allen Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> allen at MythNew:~$ sudo modinfo nvidia
>>> [sudo] password for allen:
>>> modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.
>>> allen at MythNew:~$ sudo modprobe nvidia
>>> modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory
>>> /lib/modules/4.15.0-32-generic
>>> allen at MythNew:~$
>>>
>>
>> OK, we don't need experts to tell us that your nvidia module is missing.
>> Please reinstall the proprietary nvidia module.
>>
>>
> and perhaps see this, from 2018 Jan 12
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-
>> drivers-304/+bug/1742837
>>
>
> summary:        nvidia-304 304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.1: nvidia-304 kernel
> module failed to
> - build
> + build (error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror
> + =incompatible-pointer-types] .unload = nv_drm_unload,)
>
> Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
>
>
8.04 needs video updates to work which are likely unsupported at this late
time per my Digital Video WiKi.
16.04 will not work with either of my nvidia cards (6200 8600) per this
post and the two bug reports.
18.04 will not work with my remote per a previous post.

There are several Nvidia video cards that I am looking at. They have a
variety of chips
GT210
GT710
GT730
GT1030

The only one listed in the supported cards wiki
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU#Supported_Cards is the GT210 which I
suspect is more a matter of the wiki being out of date as it was last
modified in 2016. There is an Nvidia VDPAU page but it does not list these
newer cards either so they are either not supported, or the page is also
out of date.

I would prefer a more modern card but want to know that it is supported.
How do I know if the other cards are supported?

Allen
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