[mythtv-users] Upgraded to .21 having some problems..

[Noah Markon]

Hello..

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 to get the Myth .21 and everything
seems to working ok, but I'm having a couple issues with some things.
One of reasons I finally upgraded was to play some 264  files I
encoded using Handbrake. Before the files would not play at all, just
a black screen then kick back out to the video selection. Now some
play, however the others play but skip every second or two. The logs
give me the dreaded "Prebuffering Pause."  Normally I get this message
when my CPU is maxed, however during playback my CPU usage doesn't get
above 50%...

Here's a snippet from my log:
2008-12-14 20:50:48.233 DPMS Deactivated
2008-12-14 20:50:49.160 AFD: Opened codec 0xc34f650, id(H264) type(Video)
2008-12-14 20:50:49.160 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
2008-12-14 20:50:49.160 AFD: Opened codec 0xc34f9d0, id(AAC) type(Audio)
2008-12-14 20:50:49.166 Opening audio device 'mixed-digital'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
2008-12-14 20:50:49.166 Opening ALSA audio device 'mixed-digital'.
2008-12-14 20:50:49.259 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video Texture'
2008-12-14 20:50:49.368 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 1280 H: 720
2008-12-14 20:50:49.805 Unknown altfont: infofont in textarea: callsign
2008-12-14 20:50:50.408 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2008-12-14 20:50:50.410 Using realtime priority.
2008-12-14 20:50:50.419 No DTS Seeking Hack!
2008-12-14 20:50:50.511 OpenGLVideoSync()
2008-12-14 20:50:50.548 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
2008-12-14 20:50:52.032 NVP: prebuffering pause
2008-12-14 20:50:53.332 NVP: prebuffering pause
2008-12-14 20:50:54.399 NVP: prebuffering pause
2008-12-14 20:50:55.366 NVP: prebuffering pause
2008-12-14 20:50:56.662 TV: Attempting to change from
WatchingPreRecorded to None
2008-12-14 20:50:56.682 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- begin
2008-12-14 20:50:56.682 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- middle
2008-12-14 20:50:56.682 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- end

I've tried various decoders, interlacers, nothing seems to make a
difference.. So does any one have any suggestions on how to get these
videos to play using the internal player? Or any one have any
suggestions on Handbrake encoding settings for playback via MythVideo?

Thanks!