[mythtv-users] Anyone else? - Reproducible frontend crash playing HD MPEG2

[Tom Dexter]

On Dec 18, 2007 4:49 PM, William Price <wrprice at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
> David George wrote:
> > What version are you running?  Are you capturing OTA, QAM, firewire,
> > something else?
>
> 0.20.2-something (RPM build from atrpms)
> Fedora 7 w/ latest updates
> capturing QAM-256 (Comcast) using a Fusion HDTV5 Gold
>
> It has only happened so far on two programs, but I haven't played back
> everything I've recorded and I'm hoping it's not systemic.  Copying the
> file over to my desktop box (same OS) lets me play the file with gXine
> without any issue.
>
> I've tried switching my playback preferences between 'standard',
> 'standard XvMC', 'libmpeg2', etc. with seemingly no effect.  I suppose
> Myth always uses ffmpeg somewhere under the hood -- it sounds like a
> likely candidate.
>
>
It may well be that the mpeg file is currupted in a way that's
crashing the demuxing process.  If that's the case, just as you
described, the decoding method (XvMC, libmpeg2 etc) wouldn't make a
difference.

Tom