[mythtvnz] Fwd: mythtv with vdpau and LATM/AAC support

[graeme]

Jonathan Hoskin wrote:
> I've given it a good run overnight. All channels work beautifully 
> (with sound) on my standalone box which is a single core Sempron 
> LE-1200 2.1Ghz & 8500GT. Even Mythcommflag can run in the background 
> at the same time with no worries as well.
>
> Issues:
>
> 1) There were a couple of frontend crashes which I will try to 
> reproduce and get log info about.
> 2) The OSD is skewed/broken. I have tried a couple of different OSD 
> flavours with the same result. Photos here: 
> http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/329831/1/mythosdbugs?h=dd37c2
> 3) Yes there is heaps of spam in the frontend logs, but nothing 
> logrotate can't handle
>
> Am I better off firing these straight to Jean-Yves?
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nick.rout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I would like people to take Jean-Yves up on his offer of a testing
>     version of 0.21-fixes with his unofficial backport of vdpau and
>     he-aac/latm patches. See below.
>
>     A fellow list member provided a TV2 clip  which Jean-Yves says plays
>     with 3% CPU and sound working. However he comments "lots of output
>     from ffmpeg however. would fill the log very quickly".
>
>     Can we have more testers please? I don't have access to HD at present
>     (new aerial donation anyone?) nor a vdpau card. However I'll probably
>     invest soon, once you bunnies have tested it out :)
>
>     Nick.
>
>
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jyavenard at gmail.com>>
>     Date: Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:44 AM
>     Subject: mythtv with vdpau and LATM/AAC support
>     To: nick.rout at gmail.com <mailto:nick.rout at gmail.com>
>
>
>     Hi
>
>     I have worked on porting the LATM/AAC support from the packages you've
>     pointed to me to my own build.
>     It wasn't exactly trivial because the 0.21-fixes code he's using,
>     isn't really fixes.. It contains a lot of differences and in
>     particular a different ffmpeg version.
>
>     Now I can't test if my mods are correct. So I've set a testing ubuntu
>     package. It also includes some new changes in VDPAU but those required
>     180.25, so you must upgrades to those drivers ..
>
>     To download the package, use my testing repository:
>
>     add to /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>     deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos release/
>     deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos testing/
>
>     Let me know how it goes... if it works fine I will use those patches
>     from now on.
>
>     Cheers
>     Jean-Yves
>
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I took the plunge with the testing version of Jeans and am fairly happy 
with it, haven't had any crashes.
I have a 8400GS card and run the 180.27 driver.
Playback does have some tearing and disturbances (especially during 
large panning) but otherwise is quite watchable.
The only deinterlacer that works for me is Bob2x hw, the others cause 
high CPU usage and stuttering.
Is this likely to be card specific, would I be better off with a more up 
spec card?

BTW does any one have a sound settings recipe for getting AC3 sound with 
TV3 and stereo sound with other channels with the same settings?
I've tried 5.1->AC3 Pass thru but get static on TV3 and no sound on 
other channels.  Stereo is the only setting that works for me.


Cheers
Graeme