[mythtv-users] Should I be switching to 0.21?

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Sat Apr 5 16:02:15 UTC 2008


Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Brad DerManouelian
> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>> David Brodbeck wrote:
>>  > On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Josh White wrote:
>>  >> I believe I have matched my settings on .21 to those I used on .20.2
>>  >> and I use more cpu than I did before.
>>  >
>>  > Maybe what's needed is a list of profile settings to get the same
>>  > level of CPU usage as .20.2.  People could then change stuff from that
>>  > point if they wanted to sacrifice CPU for better quality.  I've gotten
>>  > the impression on this list that people have spent a lot of time
>>  > playing with playback profiles without getting satisfactory results;
>>  > no one really seems to know how to configure it properly.  As someone
>>  > who's basically happy with the video quality in .20.2 I find this a
>>  > disincentive to upgrading.
>>
>>  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles
>>
>>  Slim is the same as 0.20 was using.
>>
>>
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> 
> I'm confused by the statement that slim is the same as 0.20.  0.20
> didn't even offer ffmpeg as a decoder did it?  In any case, it would
> depend on what the users previous settings were.

In 0.20, "The Preferred MPEG2 Decoder" option "Standard" is ffmpeg.

> I'm still on 0.20.2.  I'm using bob and libmpeg2.  As I understand it,
> in order to get those exact settings in 0.21, I'd need to create a new
> profile group with only one profile for all resolutions that used
> xv-blit (I believe), libmpeg2 as a decoder, and bob as a deinterlacer.

Correct.


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