[mythtv-users] MythVideo .22RC1 playback errors

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
> I get macroblocking in a few videos with the internal player. I had hoped
> that the new version would allow me to use the internal player for
> everything. Right now, I am building mplayer with the new libraries so I can
> use it for the h264 files again. The internal player has improved, but I
> still can't play a few files that play perfectly in mplayer with VDPAU. I do
> have the frontend set to use VDPAU, but I haven't verified that the internal
> player in MythVideo uses it. Playing TV recordings (ATSC) back works fine
> with VDPAU though. I was just wondering if there is some troubleshooting I
> can do to help debug it, logs, whatever. I might be able to snip the first
> few minutes out of a file or something as well so the devs can take a look.
>
> mplayer works, but it would be nice to have the same user experience for
> everything. The videos are stored on a fileserver, but it's a really fast
> server over gigabit, and mplayer works fine with it, so I doubt that's the
> problem. The problems occur on a netbooted frontend and a combined BE/FE
> with local storage for the OS and recordings.
>

Travis-

Have you build seektables for these videos?

mythcommflag --rebuild --video /path/to/the/file.ext

Robert