[zaphod24]

For me, the 0416 build is one of the best I've seen on my RPi2 for video playback. I'm only using dvdplayer and have disabled omxplayer. Everything just worked quite well... Skipping back and forth by large and small amounts, deinterlacing 1080i60, playing back 1080p60. I'm totally fine with the GUI updates being a second priority when video is playing.

Thanks for reporting. Please continue to report when things improve in builds as well as when things get worse.

I don't typically use PVR/live tv/deinterlace, but from time to time I test files using the IPTV PVR addon (which behaves somewhat like real PVR) and may make changes that appear to improve its behaviour. However I'm never very sure if the changes help real PVR use, and so if no one comments on the change, I may drop it as not having a proven benefit.

Well thanks for what you're doing! I only saw a few smallish-looking changes for MMAL in the latest build but recorded and live TV using the MythTV PVR plugin as well as video files played via NFS (huge mix of SD and HD content, most h264 encoded) are really working well with 0416. The "intentionally stessing for hardware" test files from http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/ play just fine also.