[mythtv-users] VDPAU Playback Profile?

[Dave Johansen]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Deyan <mythtv at bektchiev.net> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> 2009/4/8 Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>:
>>>>> I was wondering if it's possible to create a playback profile to come
>>>>> bundled with the VDPAU Ubuntu Packages. It would also be nice if it
>>>>> was selected as the default profile, because it took me a little while
>>>>> to figure out where/how to turn on VDPAU support after installing the
>>>>> packages.
>>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> unfortunately, those profiles wouldn't show up if you were upgrading
>>>> from a standard mythtv installation (which I assume is what everyone
>>>> is doing).
>>>>
>>>> the various profiles are created during the first run of mythtv not later.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think that it was mentioned on this list before that if you delete
>>> all of your profiles, then the next time you enter the screen (or
>>> restart the frontend, I don't remember exactly) the default profiles
>>> would be created.
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>>
>> Unfortunately, the wiki page has little info (
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Playback_profiles ), but would it be
>> possible to at least create a script of some sort to create the VDPAU
>> Playback Profile and set it is the currently used one? If I knew
>> where/how the information was stored, then I would look into doing
>> this myself, but I haven't been able to find any info on where MythTV
>> stores this data.
>> Dave
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>
> There is information telling individuals to create a VDPAU profile
> manually on the VDPAU wiki page:
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU#Display_Profiles. It is pretty easy to
> setup the profile, it hardly seems worth scripting it. You just have
> to pick VDPAU from two dropdown lists. Also one of the main selling
> points for VDPAU isn't just the hardware decoder, but also the
> de-interlacers. Not all cards can do all of the de-interlacers. So it
> would probably be necessary to make VDPAU High and VDPAU Low profiles.
> Either way people will likely need to go in and adjust the
> de-interlacers for their particular system. But I suppose it would be
> nice to have a couple of predefined profiles in there to start with.
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Jean-Yves,
Could you put a link to this on your site? Or add the corresponding
instructions to your site directly? Because I imagine that quite a few
people are like myself and had no idea how to enable VDPAU support
once it's been installed.
Thanks,
Dave