[mythtv-users] Video playback issues in 0.23-fixes

[Blammo]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> :With respect to the H264 problems, my money is definitely on the
>> stream type - and more specifically "Format settings, ReFrames
>> : 9 frames" (which is also confirmed in your frontend log).
>>
>> I know you said you tried before but the way to fix this (assuming you
>> have enough GPU memory) is to bump up the VDPAU buffer size. Start at
>> the max and if it works, start dropping it down to more reasonable
>> levels. Hopefully this will be fixed for 0.25 (mind you, I had hoped
>> to fix it for 0.24!)
>>
>>
> Did a little experimenting.. took my primary desktop (core i5 at 4.2ghz,
> GTX-460) did a mythdora install, updated to 23-fixes, and 260.19.21.. issue
> still happens with "default" settings
>
> started with vdpaubuffersize=1 and worked up 1 at a time.
>
> at 16 the 8500GT machine is happy
> at 24 the 460GTX machine is happy.
>
> So it appears for the time being I can tune around the H.264 issue, but in
> my opinion something is still... broken.
>

Spoke too soon.

The same vdpaubuffer setting that allows the H.264 to play "Freezes" MythTV
several times tonight over a 3 hour period, while playing 1080i HDHR
content, with the frontendlog complaining about "no video buffer"

Argh!!


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