[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6312: Screen tearing on h.264 vdpau playback starting with version 19969 through current trunk. (20088)

[Harley Peters]

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:51:56 -0600
Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 01:36 +0000, MythTV wrote:
> 
> > Comment(by markk):
> > 
> >  Can you confirm whether or not you are still seeing this?
> 
> I just updated to 20787 yesterday. I still occasionally see a
> horizontal rolling band of distortion. It will start at some random
> vertical position, then slowly scroll to the bottom and disappear.
> Then things are perfect for a minute or two, then it will happen
> again. Is this what is meant by "tearing"? If so, I still
> occasionally see it as of 20787.
> 
> I also get "jump backs". This happens only occasionally, but it's
> always when I hit fast forward to skip through an ad. Suddenly I will
> be a minute or two back in the recording. But it THINKS it's where it
> is supposed to be, as shown by the OSD. Somehow, the position marker
> is correct, but what is actually being shown is a minute or two
> behind.  If I quit out of the recording, saving current position, and
> restart it, it's back in sync.
> 
> Lastly, commercial flagging doesn't seem to work on my h.264 files.
> They always show up as "Not Flagged". I have not started to
> investigate this yet.
> 
> None of these problems occur with the HD files produced by my
> HDHomerun, or with SD recordings produced by the PVR-500. These
> problems are specific to h.264 playback. I am using VDPAU with a
> GeForce 9500 GT. Fedora 10 x86_64 with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
> Core Processor 4200+ if any of that matters. My h.264 files are
> produced by an HD-PVR.
> 
> --Greg
> 
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You must have a different problem.
Mine looked like vsync tearing. And always happened in the top quarter
of the screen.
Any way the latest version of trunk seems to have fixed my problem.