2015-09-09, 20:34
(2015-09-09, 20:22)metaron Wrote: I thought MMAL playback didn't use the MPEG2 codec, but I guess you still need it for the MMAL deinterlace methods :-(.No, MMAL means dvdplayer (now videoplayer) with HW acceleration. It does fall back to software decode when HW acceleration is not available
(but that is not technically MMAL - it will behave the same as MMAL disabled).
Quote:Anyway, unfortunately it seems I was a little hasty in saying my issue was fixed. With the codec installed and build #0908 loaded, back the aspect ratio issue came. Guess I need to be a little more patient...No fix yet. There are a few ways of fixing this, none are trivial.
One thing I'm thinking of is moving deinterlace from the decoder into the renderer.
That will have the side effect of fixing your issue and could have performance benefits.
However it's a big change, and there may be downsides, so it needs some experimentation.
