[mythtv-users] Incorrect playback profile selected.

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Matt Doran <matt.doran at papercut.com> wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > I must be missing something but here's what's going on...
>  >
>  > It appears that the wrong playback profile is getting picked. I am
>  > playing 1080i content from my HDHomerun and I can sift through the log
>  > to see "VDP: Accepting.." etc on both the playback profiles (Slim with
>  > quartz ones removed). But I can't tell what lines let's me know which
>  > profile was chosen.
>  >
>  > It was driving me mad because I went all the way back to the one field
>  > deinterlacer to try and get smooth playback (which has worked well
>  > before) on the >= 1280 x 720 profile but nothing I did had any effect.
>  > It would play a few frames and freeze, skipping forward would "break
>  > it loose" for another few frames and if would freeze again.
>  >
>  > On a whim I changed the deinterlacer on my "rez > 0 0" profile segment
>  > and it suddenly started to work! Now I've even added the second
>  > qualifier to the > 0 0 profile so now it's supposed to exclude
>  > anything 720 or greater (< 1280 x 720) but it's still choosing that
>  > profile!
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  Is this only happening when you view live TV?   If so, you might be
>  hitting the issue I found a few days ago.
>
>  http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5025
>
>  Does this sound like it?
>
>  When I was investigating this problem, I too found the logs a bit
>  confusing.  It would be nice if the logs included a clear statement
>  about which was selected.
>
>  Regards,
>  Matt

I'm not sure.. I'm at work now but I thought I remember it getting the
correct resolution

LoadBestPreferences (1920x1080, 60)

in the log file but it still picks the wrong deinterlacer... I'll
check when I get home tonight...

Thanks,
Richard