Difference between revisions of "Video pipeline"

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=== Video Renderers ===
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- What does the video renderer do?

Revision as of 16:12, 16 June 2017

The video playback mechanism in MythTV uses a common path for all of the types:

  • Recording playback.
  • Live TV.
  • Video playback.

There are checks in many places to do different things depending on the type. Live TV is just a recording and simultaneous playback, but does have many nuances for features such as channel changing and moving from one program to the next.

Video Decode

- Describe how we decode a frame

Video Deinterlace

- How do we deinterlace frame(s)

Video Ouput

- How those frames then get to the display

Video Painters

- What does the video painter do?

Video Renderers

- What does the video renderer do?