Video pipeline

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