[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10602: Playback profiles do not fall back to follow-up entries should the first fail

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#10602: Playback profiles do not fall back to follow-up entries should the first
fail
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     Reporter:  jyavenard                |      Owner:  jyavenard
         Type:  Bug Report - General     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  minor                    |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:  MythTV - Video Playback  |    Version:  Master Head
     Severity:  medium                   |   Keywords:
Ticket locked:  0                        |
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 The video playback profile editor let you enter different entries
 according to specific video size criteria.

 The choice of a playback profile works only according to those criteria.
 If one is automatically selected, only to later fail ; for say when the
 video codec isn't supported, it doesn't try another video profile.

 For example, say you have a VAAPI profile, that as first entry uses VAAPI
 for all decoding and vaapi for deinterlacing, and a 2nd entry that uses
 ffmpeg for decoding and opengl for deinterlacer.

 if the VAAPI/GPU doesn't support a particular codec, it only reverts to
 ffmpeg decoding.
 It should try the next entry in the playback profile.
 If not, as deinterlacers aren't available any longer, the video being
 played isn't deinterlaced and it looks awful.

 Should playback profiles properly worked, a side effect would be to have
 for example a general "Hardware Accelerated" profile. It would first try
 VDPAU, then VAAPI, then CrystalHD etc... it would greatly simplify user
 experience

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Ticket URL: <http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10602>
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