[mythtv] FFmpeg sync

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 04:33:11 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:51:39PM -0600, John P Poet wrote:
>> > I have not tried 1080i H.264.  I have been avoiding it because of all
>> > the segfaults.  I will try to remember to give that a shot tonight
>> > with the new code, to see if it is improved.
>>
>> Even with this patch applied, trying to watch 1080i HD-PVR generated
>> h.264 material causes mythfrontend to crash, right after:
>>
>> 2008-09-17 18:46:35.049 [h264 @ 0xb7375180]Cannot parallelize
>> deblocking type 1, decoding such frames in sequential order
>
> I have a few patches that attempt to fix defects in h264.c in ffmpeg
> trunk. I have no idea if they will help the problem you keep running
> into, but they are attached to this email if you want to give them a
> try.

Thanks Erik.  Your patches *may* make it more stable, but I am still
getting crashes.  They do seem to be less frequent, though.

If I have time this weekend, I will try to come up with some back traces.

John
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