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Thanks everyone for the useful comments about trunk, vdpau, and, for me just now, especially themes :-). It looks like I'm experiencing the broken themes most of you mentioned, as the keybindings no longer work so will load up bluetube from svn when I get time. No worries at the moment, as I've just started with a scratch install, and haven't enough in my old database to worry about breaking anything. I've been using mythtv for movie storage only, as my old mce-500 never gave me good enough picture quality to record back in the analog days, and my stb provider has blocked all theb useful outputs. That's why I was wondering whether time was ripe yet to borrow some more money for the hdfury/hd-pvr.<BR>
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Will get the theme working, then try to be nice to the wife ;-).<BR>
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Cheers!<BR>
<BR>
Marius<BR>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Mon Jun 15 21:31 , Yeechang Lee <ylee@pobox.com> sent:<BR>
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</ylee@pobox.com></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;">John P Poet <<a href="javascript:top.opencompose('jppoet@gmail.com','','','')">jppoet@gmail.com</a>> says:<BR>
<span style="color: red;">> I have been running H264Parser-fixes-v1.1.patch from</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">> <a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fsvn.mythtv.org%2Ftrac%2Fticket%2F6243" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6243</span></a> for several months. It works</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">> well, and is a more "proper" implementation than what is currently</span><BR>
<span style="color: red;">> committed to trunk.</span><BR>
<BR>
Speaking of which, I am using your patch on -fixes (as backported by<BR>
Jean-Yves Avenard) and am happy to report that I can play[1] h.264 DVD<BR>
rips-to-mkv produced by HandBrake.[2]<BR>
<BR>
I'd been worried about what<BR>
<url:><a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gossamer-threads.com%2Flists%2Fmythtv%2Fusers%2F342836%23342836" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/342836#342836</span></a>><BR>
and<BR>
<url:><a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gossamer-threads.com%2Flists%2Fmythtv%2Fusers%2F337729%23337729" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/337729#337729</span></a>><BR>
reported, as well as some old experiences with mkv files, but<BR>
everything--forward/backward skips, jumps to random times--works<BR>
well. With Avenard's VDPAU backport total CPU usage is about 7-9%,[3]<BR>
which is noticeably better than the 11-15% for the MPEG-4 rips-to-avi<BR>
I've created for many years.<BR>
<BR>
[1] To be accurate, I don't know whether it's #6243 or Mark Kendall's<BR>
patches which Avenard's incorporated into his VDPAU backport that's<BR>
making the difference, but I am happy to spread credit around as<BR>
widely as possible.<BR>
<BR>
[2] I am using 0.9.3 which supports more than two audio tracks per<BR>
rip, which is great for movies with (say) an English track, a French<BR>
track, and two commentary tracks. A nice improvement over 0.9.1, which<BR>
only supports two.<BR>
<BR>
[3] At such low levels, other factors become more apparent. I use the<BR>
#5900 upmixer, for example--which kicks in despite my using 'AC3<BR>
passthru' when ripping these DVDs, I suppose because the tracks aren't<BR>
5.1--and turning it off via the OSD drops usage to 1-2%.<BR>
<BR>
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