[mythtv-users] m2ts videos failing in MythVideo .022 fixes

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Derek & Cindi Cass
<cass at casscoenterprises.com> wrote:
> Ok, I’m not sure what is going on, but it may not be MythTv itself that is
> the issue.  The error is in /mythtv/libs/libavcodec/h264.c, which is
> actually ffmpeg.  I thought I read somewhere that ffmpeg is sync’d in to
> mythtv every now and then, and it appears that it hasn’t changed since
> July.  The video’s were certainly working in September and into October, so
> obviously something else is to blame.
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> I do recall updating FC10 with some h.264 related fixes a little while ago,
> so those might be to blame.  My guess is that those updates don’t work well
> with the version of ffmpeg embedded in Myth.  I wish I could remember
> exactly what those updates were… :-/
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> In any event, I switched to using mplayer instead of the internal player for
> all m2ts files, and the videos are working fine again.
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> If any developers still feel any concern about this, I’d be happy to post a
> video and provide any testing for any fixes to get the internal player
> working again.

I see you are using vdpau (2009-11-14 10:48:04.617 [h264_vdpau @
0x69dd620]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt
input), discarding one)

vdpau seems very intolerant of stream errors. Maybe something in your
home video streams is slightly kaput, plays OK outsider the vdpau
system but vdpau chokes on it?