[mythtv-users] [BUG] OSD fade causes choppiness

[Greg Farrell]

Hi,

   I've found that the fading effect of the OSD causes seconds of video 
choppiness
and audio-breakup every time it occurs on my via sp13000. This occurs on 
every
channel change.

 I noticed this in the move from .18.1 to .19-fixes a few months back 
and assumed
it was to do with the reworking of the recording method/removal of the 
ring buffer
method.
It wasn't until recently that I realised it was during the OSD fade, 
which is a couple of
seconds after channel change.

While I know that I can edit the osd.xml to disable fading (from looking 
through the
source code) it took me a couple of months of assuming it was a bug in 
mythtv
and repeated upgrades to the latest fixes to see if it was sorted.

You could say that it is a configurable option that the user can 
disable. However if they
cannot find this option, and I really doubt the average user will, then 
it will keep on
appearing as bugged behaviour to them.

Should the fade option default to off or would a configuration option to 
force on/off osd
fade with a small explanation of why be added?

I dare say this only manifested itself on my system because of the 
crapness of a 1.3ghz
via cpu, but lots of others must be experiencing it too? BTW it occurs 
both with xvmc
and normal decoding.

It turns a machine that can happily playback live-tv into one that 
cannot. All for a minor
piece of eye-candy.

    Greg