Mythtv-vid

Outdated: This branch was merged into trunk in [52259b82] and is no longer in development.

What is it?

The point of the mythtv-vid branch is to fix some of the long standing deficiencies in the video output classes, for X11 in particular.

Development can be tracked via #2287

Goals

Filters

• Add support for OpenGL filtering, in particular Lanczos for scaling and YV12->RGB conversion for display (ref #843)
• Allow different filter sets for different video and display resolutions.
• Make setting up filters easier with a GUI
• Allow changing the filter set during playback, esp for deinterlacing.
• Auto-detect pull-up and apply ivtc filtering (#1778)

Video output methods

• Implement per-frame video resolution switching
• Support XvMC for MPEG-2 NUV files (and enable transcode to MPEG-2)
• Finish support for XvMC copy to pbuffer + opengl render
• Key xrandr switching to video framerate

OSD rendering

• Fix video frame OSD blending for bob-deint (Filter vert freq in pause + when there is video<->screen framerate mismatch)
• Implement RGB OSD surfaces
• Implement OpenGL OSD surfaces
• Implement X Composited OSD surfaces
• Key preferred OSD and OSD fade to resolution and video output method.

Installing

See http://svn.mythtv.org

svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/mythtv-vid/

Setup

Database backup

• Backup existing database using your favourite method

New Database Additions

CREATE TABLE `displayprofilegroups` (
`name` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`hostname` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`profilegroupid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
PRIMARY KEY  (`name`,`hostname`),
UNIQUE KEY `profilegroupid` (`profilegroupid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE `displayprofiles` (
`profilegroupid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`profileid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`value` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`data` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ,
KEY `profilegroupid` (`profilegroupid`),
KEY `profileid` (`profileid`,`value`),
KEY `profileid_2` (`profileid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Using the new branch

Start mythfrontend in your usual fashion and start exploring the new features in Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback