[mythtv-users] 30 vs 31

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 23:03:06 -0700, you wrote:

>On 5/24/20 2:59 AM, jam wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 May 2020, at 5:04 pm, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>> I’m asking for advocasy. Why should I use 31 and not 30
>>>>>> I find 31 slow to start, 30 odd secs for 31 vs 1 sec for 30
>>>>>> On my high sierra mac, thanks to John’s hard work, a frontend does run, but the audio and video drift to be many seconds apart.
>>>>>> A virtualBox VM running ubuntu (downloaded packages) and opensuse Tumbleweed (built from src) has the same audio drift
>>>>>> A parallels VN tunning either of the above distros frontend does *not* show the drift.
>>>>> Things may be different on Macs, but I believe that a/v sync drift in recent frontends is usually caused by frame dropping when the selected deinterlacer is working too hard.  Try one that isn't quite so demanding.
>>>>>
>>>>> Setup > Video > Playback > Current Video Playback Profile >  ....
>>>> John thanks
>>>> I was decieved by cpu load but changing the deinterlacer fixed the problem
>>> Isn't that still a bad sign for the new synchronisation mechanism, though? = that it should drift so far when the video is struggling.
>> And we are not talking mS but 10s S or minutes
>> James
>
>Still haven't seen a response that answers the question "Why should I 
>use 31 and not 30?".  Are there bug fixes, features, improvements of any 
>kind?  So far, all I've seen are new bugs.
>
>Dave D.

The new rendering code is the big change - a behind the scenes change,
but quite significant.  If you have Intel or AMD video, then I believe
the new rendering code is now able to use them just as well as Nvidia.