[mythtv-users] CBS HD content suddenly doesn't play

[raphy]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Raphael <rpooser at gmail.com> wrote:
> H Z wrote:
>>
>> I checked the file sizes on my mythbackend and they're consistent across
>> CBS shows prior to Jan14 and after. An hour of HD programming runs about
>> 5.1-5.6 GB in size.
>>
>> I'll keep digging and if I figure it out I'll let people know. Seems
>> likely it's something to do with the lack of power of the appletv clearly
>> since it plays fine elsewhere.
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> H Z did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same issue as you. Suddenly
> shows recorded after 1/14 on cbs won't play on my frontend. Normally shows
> play fine with xvmc and all other HD channels play fine. Because of this I
> would find it hard to believe it's an issue of low frontend power.
>

I've figured out that the problem is xvmc. files playback once I turn
xvmc off and go back to using the standard decoder or libmpeg2. The
playback is not fast enough though. Switching back to xvmc I get a
black screen and a bunch of errors endlessly spit out by the frontend
until I exit out of the player, which is showing only a black screen
and no sound. Here are the errors the frontend throws out:

2009-02-12 22:10:56.239 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
2009-02-12 22:10:56.282 [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb735cb88]get_buffer()
failed (1 1073741824 2 (nil))

Seems to be something related to xvmc. I wonder if a driver update
would help things.