[mythtv-users] frontend video smoothness
Paul Gardiner
lists at glidos.net
Tue May 19 13:38:02 UTC 2020
On 19/05/2020 12:08, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 19/05/2020 08:54, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 18/05/2020 17:54, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> And I recently noticed that the leanfront seems to work well with
>>> live DVB-T mpeg2 material, while recordings now have good audio but
>>> the video pauses briefly about once a second and sync is terrible...
>>
>> That sounds like the TV being driven at the wrong frame rate, either a
>> 24fps movies played with the TV running at 25fps or vice versa. I'm
>> finding leanfront really very nice to use these days, but that is one
>> constant pain, having to do the strange vulcan nerve pinch on the
>> firestick control to get 24fps.
>
> > Paul G.
>
> Yes, for leanfront it might be partially a framerate problem. Firestick
> is natively 60 Hz and the content is 25 Hz. My attempts at logging have
> given only a few lines, unlike Yeechang's from his Shield. I'll look
> out for more options. The 'live' behaviour came as a surprise.
I just found a forum post suggesting that the Fire Stick 4K wrongly
switches 25fps content to 24fps:
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00006zSzsmSAC/fire-tv-stick-4k-framerate-switching-faulty.
Perhaps the Shield does the same. That would certainly explain a tick
every second.
P.
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