[mythtv-users] stutter playback of h264 on geforce 210 but not on ION

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 21:27:33 UTC 2012


On 28 March 2012 06:17, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> I have two FEs both on the same version of master
> (v0.25-beta-99-gff73126) and while one (an ION) plays a certain h264
> video just fine, a GeForce 210 machine stutters really badly.
>
> A frontend log with playback,audio debugging in it can be found at
> http://brian.interlinx.bc.ca/mythfrontend.20120327140714.13023.log.  The
> last thing the log (i.e. starting at line 3718) is reporting playback of
> is this troublesome file with the VDPAU Slim profile, since I had
> assumed at some point that I was simply trying to over drive the
> capabilities of this card.
>
> The recording itself is only 704x360 so I'd really hope that overdriving
> was not the problem but it was at least one avenue to test before coming
> here.

Are you using an AMD processor? If so, try upping the minimum
frequency to something > 1.8GHz

In the log, I saw no use of the VDPAU slim profile, it is currently
set to VDPAU Normal ; try the slim profile. Having said that, Normal
should be enough for the 210.

Jean-Yves


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