[mythtv-users] 0.24 Mac OS X Build

[Mike Dent]

On 17 January 2011 01:23, Eric Holt <ericsh at wvcom.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:03 PM, John Sturgeon <john.sturgeon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:15 AM, John Sturgeon wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On Jan 16, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> >
>> >> At 7:55 AM -0800 1/16/11, John Sturgeon wrote:
>> >>> The main problem I have had is with skipping forward and back in shows
>> >>> lagging by about .4 seconds each time... makes for a very slugging/painful
>> >>> viewing experience.  Also, watching HD content on my Mac Mini suddenly
>> >>> became a chore.  Some settings would work to get 1080i back up on it's feet,
>> >>> but 720p from ABC seemed to be very jumpy/jerky no matter what I did.
>> >>>  Crashes at least once/day (WAF is going VERY down at this point).  Exiting
>> >>> a show would take up to three seconds.
>> >>
>> >> Interesting.  Sounds similar to the problem described in:
>> >>
>> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9223
>> >>
>> >> Note that Mark only applied this commit to fixes/0.24 on Jan. 14.
>> >
>> > I've been following this closely, and yes, I built yesterday, but
>> > perhaps my osx-packager did not pull the correct version since I'm still
>> > getting some of the same  Waited 100ms for video buffers
>> > ULAAAUUAuUALUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAA errors.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>> ...
>> >>> I've been successfully building 0.24/fixes from Git and have been
>> >>> happy with the update.  skipping forward/back still lags a bit, but not so
>> >>> much as to make it unusable, and playback of all HD content is as smooth as
>> >>> usual.
>> >>
>> >> Also interesting.  Did you rebuild in the last day-and-a-half to pick
>> >> up the commit above?  A number of people are having trouble getting a
>> >> successful build, see:
>> >>
>> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9426
>> >>
>> >> If you do rebuild, make sure you use the newest version of
>> >> osx-packager.pl as it will download and install Yasm (if you don't have it
>> >> already).  There are several assembler-optimized routines in the ffmpeg code
>> >> that Myth uses.  *I* think that made a huge difference to the on screen
>> >> display responsiveness but maybe I had some other config problem between the
>> >> two builds.
>> >
>> > I downloaded/compiled/installed YASM myself before the build, but yes...
>> > I did build yesterday.
>> >
>> > Looking at the current build of mythtv on the mac sourceforge site, I
>> > see it updated yesterday, I find it difficult to decipher Git versions...
>> > when was the version up there (v0.24-108-g798359f-dirty) built?
>>
>> Just to follow myself up, I downloaded the build on the sourceforge site,
>> and it is definitely not the same one that I built yesterday.  It starts
>> playback, but if I skip forward, back, pause or anything, it just keeps
>> playing for about 2 minutes delaying my command.  Finally, after a couple
>> minutes elapses, it begins to play my commands.  The kids needed to watch
>> some football today, so I rolled back and didn't catch the log file.  If I
>> have a chance, I'll dig back into the log file from earlier today when I
>> tested the build and post any results.
>>
>
>
> The latest version up on Sourceforge is really borked for me.  I select a
> video to play, and it starts to play -- but I immediately get the spinning
> beachball.  The video, however, continues to play just fine -- but keyboard
> commands are completely ignored and there's no response from Mythfrontend at
> all.  I have to force-kill (cmd-opt-esc) to exit out of Myth.  Ouch.

I had the same problem with this build. Got the spinner but could not
even get get to force quit.

> I had to revert back to the previous good build just now, as my partner
> would kill me if we couldn't watch The Simpsons and what-not tonight ;)
>  [I'm already in hot water for upgrading to 0.24 -- I better not press my
> luck.]
> Tomorrow, I'll roll this latest build back onto our Mac Mini and get some
> log files.
> #Eric
>
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