[mythtv-users] FF h.264 files using Internal Player

[James Oltman]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Taylor Ralph <tralph11 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Wed, 12/23/09, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] FF h.264 files using Internal Player
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 9:58 AM
> > I've moved over to the internal player
> > (was using mplayer) for playing h.264 files.  I like having
> > the OSD.  When I fast forward through the file, it is not
> > as smooth as with a recorded MPEG2 file (from HDHR for
> > example).  Obviously, they are different file types, but I
> > was hoping it would FF smoother.  Also, I get audio from
> > the program that doesn't seem to FF at the same rate as
> > the video FFs.  (It's strange that I never have audio
> > playing from MPEG2 files while FFing using INTERNAL
> > player)  So the audio is playing at normal speed but
> > breaking up (not really skipping ahead) and the video is
> > very choppy.  MPlayer was much smoother and simply jumped
> > ahead the specified number of seconds I have configured.
> > If that's the way it is, then I'm fine with that, I
> > was just curious more than anything.  I'm running
> > Mythbuntu x64 9.10, MythTV .22, nVidia 9500GT (512MB) PCIe
> > 16x, w/ JYA's repo and latest nVidia
> > drivers(195.something?).  MythTV is configured for the
> > "Seperate Video Modes" @ 1920x1080.  Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> If you are willing to compile then you can try a patch that improves libavf
> seeking when using the Internal player.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7521
>
> You'll also want to apply another patch to fix the video corruption problem
> when seeking in MKV containers.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7454
>
> If you do try this it'd be nice to here how your experience goes.
>
> --
> Taylor
>
>
Does anyone know if these patches are available in JYA's repo?  Testing?
Thanks!

Jim
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