[mythtv-users] hdpvr and high xorg load after commercial skip

Richard Woelk richardwoelk at yahoo.ca
Tue Sep 9 02:00:55 UTC 2008


Steve Heistand wrote:
> so it seems that right after a commercial skip (or a user skip I guess as well)
> my Xorg process sucks up 100% of a cpu for a little while. I get the messages in my
> frontend log of:
>
> 2008-09-07 20:44:07.672 [h264 @ 0xb72ee188]B picture before any references, skipping
> 2008-09-07 20:44:07.673 [h264 @ 0xb72ee188]decode_slice_header error
> 2008-09-07 20:44:07.673 [h264 @ 0xb72ee188]no frame!
> 2008-09-07 20:44:07.673 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
>
> it must after a while get to some "full frame" block or whatever h264 calls it
> and then goes on about it business just fine.
>
> anyone else seeing such a thing?
>
> thanks
>
> s
>
>
> "Why is it so hot inside this handbasket?"
> --
> Steve Heistand
> steve at heistand.org
>
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>   

Steve,
    I see this as well and just ignore it. I assume its because mythtv 
is skipping in between key frames and has to throw out some garbage 
before it can continue playing properly.
 I suspect this will be corrected as h.264 support is better implemented

- Richard


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