<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 26/08/2008, at 9:23 AM, Graeme Woollett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>After the continuing problems with TV3 stuttering last night with the <br>loop filter patch included, I've been double checking that I have the <br>patch right. Steve in your post from the 24/8 17:46 this was left <br>out. :-)<br><br>In the archives in this block I've noticed the inclusion of this line -<br><br>enc->thread_count = 2;</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It helps a little bit, but as Paul mentioned this option can be set via the GUI, hence I removed it from the patch.</div><div><br></div><div>My video playback settings are currently setup as CPU++, and the XVideo mode to Max 2 CPUsm and Bob 2x Deinterlacer.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like the slice based decoder does offload part of some frames to the second Core, but not enough to make a huge difference.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>It looks important, but is it something that would make a difference?<br><br>#endif // USING_XVMC || USING_DVDV<br><br> if (!handled)<br> {<br> if (CODEC_ID_H264 == enc->codec_id)<br> {<br> VERBOSE(VB_PLAYBACK, LOC + "Turning off loop <br>filter");<br> enc->skip_loop_filter = AVDISCARD_ALL;<br> VERBOSE(VB_PLAYBACK, LOC + "Enabling Fast decode <br>mode");<br> enc->flags |= CODEC_FLAG2_FAST;<br> video_codec_id = kCodec_H264;<br> }<br><br> else<br> video_codec_id = kCodec_MPEG2; // default to MPEG2<br> }<br><br> if (enc->codec)<br> {<br> VERBOSE(VB_IMPORTANT, LOC<br> <<"Warning, video codec "<<enc<<" "<br> <<"id("<<codec_id_string(enc->codec_id)<br> <<") type ("<<codec_type_string(enc->codec_type)<br> <<") already open.");<br> }<br><br><br>If I'm stuck with the TV3, situation are there transcoding options (that <br>work) in mythtv to say downscale/convert 1080i to 720p for instance?<br>I'm quite happy to wait for TV3 recordings to go though the mill before <br>watching them.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I haven't tried to transcode any HD output yet..</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>