2015-09-16, 22:36
I've been having some GUI issues since v14 or so but as they are intermittent, I've really struggled to report this, I see other people who seem like they may have similar issues also seem to struggle too, so I hope this attempt is successful.
In short with vertical blank sync enabled I see the following issues (intermittently):
Flickering in the main GUI/menus - Looks like it is alternating the drawing of the layers of the GUI - I can set VBS to be enabled only during playback to avoid this so not a major issue
The main issue is that during video playback any 'overlays' will tend to 'stick' and then further actions are ignored whilst these element stick on screen for 10+ seconds or so.
Most commonly this will be that I pause a video, upon resuming (with the Confluence skin) the overlay showing the elapsed time will switch from paused to playing and start counting up but will remain on screen (I normally use Aeon MQ 5/6 in this case it's much worse as you have 'PAUSED' in huge text remain over your resumed video). Whilst these elements remain on screen then other actions that would result in something being displayed seem to be ignored. For example I hit info and would normally get an overlay with additional move info but at this stage it will no nothing, I need to wait it out and hope the previous elements will clear of their own accord, this seems to take about 30 seconds normally. On occasion I've left it for minutes for it to do nothing, sometimes I've tried hitting a load of buttons and it then won't respond at all and I have to power the device off using the hardware button, normally though I can hit stop and resume without issue. With the 'Pause during display rate change' option enabled, the short pause at the beginning will often trigger this issue as soon as I start playback.
To be clear, disabling Vertical Blank Sync consistently makes all of those issues go away. However I'd like to have this VBS enabled if possible as without it, I seem to get issues at the top of the display where it seems like top half inch of the display doesn't quite have the rows of pixels arranged properly so the content 'leans' to one side slightly.
Pastebin with debug
See resume at 20:47:05 and the following 'info' keypresses that are ignored.
Kodibuntu x86_64 on Intel NUC DC3217BY - Core i3 3217U - Intel HD 4000 . Have had this issue for a while, since v14 I think, log shows 15.0 but have just upgraded to 15.2-RC1 and have the same issues.
Hope that covers it all, please let me know if I can provide any more info, would also appreciate it if anyone else could confirm if they see issues like this.
In short with vertical blank sync enabled I see the following issues (intermittently):
Flickering in the main GUI/menus - Looks like it is alternating the drawing of the layers of the GUI - I can set VBS to be enabled only during playback to avoid this so not a major issue
The main issue is that during video playback any 'overlays' will tend to 'stick' and then further actions are ignored whilst these element stick on screen for 10+ seconds or so.
Most commonly this will be that I pause a video, upon resuming (with the Confluence skin) the overlay showing the elapsed time will switch from paused to playing and start counting up but will remain on screen (I normally use Aeon MQ 5/6 in this case it's much worse as you have 'PAUSED' in huge text remain over your resumed video). Whilst these elements remain on screen then other actions that would result in something being displayed seem to be ignored. For example I hit info and would normally get an overlay with additional move info but at this stage it will no nothing, I need to wait it out and hope the previous elements will clear of their own accord, this seems to take about 30 seconds normally. On occasion I've left it for minutes for it to do nothing, sometimes I've tried hitting a load of buttons and it then won't respond at all and I have to power the device off using the hardware button, normally though I can hit stop and resume without issue. With the 'Pause during display rate change' option enabled, the short pause at the beginning will often trigger this issue as soon as I start playback.
To be clear, disabling Vertical Blank Sync consistently makes all of those issues go away. However I'd like to have this VBS enabled if possible as without it, I seem to get issues at the top of the display where it seems like top half inch of the display doesn't quite have the rows of pixels arranged properly so the content 'leans' to one side slightly.
Pastebin with debug
See resume at 20:47:05 and the following 'info' keypresses that are ignored.
Kodibuntu x86_64 on Intel NUC DC3217BY - Core i3 3217U - Intel HD 4000 . Have had this issue for a while, since v14 I think, log shows 15.0 but have just upgraded to 15.2-RC1 and have the same issues.
Hope that covers it all, please let me know if I can provide any more info, would also appreciate it if anyone else could confirm if they see issues like this.