[mythtv] Found a severe decoding bug in mythffplay

Mark Robinson mark at mrobinson.ca
Fri May 4 19:23:03 UTC 2012


I've tried mythavtest.  It also swaps the color channels.

Mark

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> On 5/3/2012 23:39, Mark Robinson wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded to MythTV-0.25-fixes and I've found a rather serious
>> decoding bug.
>>
>> If you use mythffplay to play a video file then the blue and red color
>> channels will be reversed.
>>
>> If I play the video on a different machine, it works fine.
>> If I play the video using Xine or mplayer on the same machine, it works
>> fine.
>>
>> Only mythffplay causes problems.
>>
>
> If `mythffplay` doesn't work, the best option would be to disable it, or
> just simply not use it.  MythTV's diagnostic playback tool is `mythavtest`.
>  We added `mythffmpeg` to give a static copy of the ffmpeg transcoding
> utility for scripts to use, built off MythTV's internal snapshot of the
> ffmpeg libraries.  `mythffplay` gets compiled for no reason other than we
> could.
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