[mythtv-users] Melt your computer with killa.sampla

[Steve Heistand]

Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com>, said on Mon Jun 22, 2009 [03:33:32 PM]:
} Got a shiny new Core 2 Duo supercomputer for MythTV? VDPAU not letting
} it get any real exercise? Try
} 
} http://tinyurl.com/KillaSampla
} 
} or
} 
} http://rapidshare.com/files/82525583/killa.sampla.x264.mkv.html
} 
} It's a 100MB clip from one of the episodes of _Planet Earth_ (on
} Blu-ray, I think). The clip severely stresses video decoders because
} it's a) very-unoptimally encoded as
} <URL:http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36803> discusses, and b)
} what appears in the video.
} 
} mythfrontend 0.21-fixes+VDPAU on my frontend more or less seizes up
} immediately, with the screen filled with green and purple macroblocks
} and an endless stream of
} 
} 2009-06-22 15:18:53.466 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer.. 2449
} LLLLLLLLLLLLLdLLL
} 2009-06-22 15:18:53.480 NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
} 2009-06-22 15:18:53.482 NVP: prebuffering pause
} 2009-06-22 15:18:53.482 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer.. 2450
} LLLLLLLLLLLLLdLLL
} 2009-06-22 15:18:53.499 NVP: prebuffering pause
} 
} messages in mythfrontend.log. mplayer (also VDPAU-enabled, from
} ATrpms) plays but only with considerable stuttering.
} 
} On my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro running OS X, mplayer (from
} MacPorts) plays the clip about as well as it does on the Pentium 4
} frontend, with lots of complaints of
} 
} Too many video packets in the buffer: (40 in 8765321 bytes).
} Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec
} failed?
} For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
} 
} VLC 0.9.9a also sort of plays it, but with visible macroblocks
} everywhere.
} 


is this the birds flying over towards the begining of episode 1?
which was my test of vdpau to see if it worked :)

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