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Pixelation in SD live TV - abrombo - 2015-02-10
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 mythtv 0.27 backend and kodi 15.0alpha nightly builds with a ceton infinitv 4 pcie tuner card. On live HD channels everthing is working perfectly. On live SD channels I get pixelation in the video and choppy sound in the audio on those SD channels I can tune. Some SD channels cannot even be tuned.
All of the SD channels that I have problems with play perfectly on the mythtv 0.27 frontend. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to rectify this situation since kodi has better sound than mythtv frontend and I vastly prefer the kodi interface for playing video and audio files.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - abrombo - 2015-02-10
Additional information - If I schedule a recording on an SD TV channel via kodi (even one that kodi cannot acquire at all) the recording is made (not unexpected since mythtv backend is doing the recording). I can play the recorded SD TV show back using kodi and it is perfect.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - Buffmeister - 2015-02-11
I had this same issue for non broadcast channels (or non-HD), fixed by going into Videos - Settings and disabling both VC-1 and prefer VAAPI.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - abrombo - 2015-02-11
Thank you for the suggestion. I tried to implement it. In my system there is no setting for VC-1 and VAAPI was on. Note that my system has Nvidia graphics.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - nickr - 2015-02-11
Try turning off vdpau and seeing if software decoding is any better.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - abrombo - 2015-02-12
Turning off vdpau did not help. In the mythtv frontend vdpau is turned on and there are no problems with the SD images.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - abrombo - 2015-02-27
Recent nighly build fixed pixelation problem. I have one remaining problem with respect to some SD channels. Most of the time I cannot play one SD channel in live TV. Kodi says channel not available. If I start to record the channel and play the recording everthing is fine.
RE: Pixelation in SD live TV - nickr - 2015-02-27
Both mythbackend and kodi have logs.