[mythtv-users] Recent DVD problems with video and audio drops

Neil Salstrom salstrom at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 18:53:42 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:09 AM, James Courtier-Dutton
<james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I good test would be trying to use opengl instead of vdpau.
> There might be a bug in the vdpau when using 3:2 pulldown.
> When using opengl, the 3:2 pulldown will be done by a different bit of software.
> Another problem might be discontinuities in the DVD stream.
> I helped write the DVD menu/playback support into xine.
> It is actually very difficult to get DVD playing/menu support right.
> Does this DVD work OK on xine?
> It might have changed, but when I wrote DVD support into xine, I could
> not use ffmpeg because it did not handle discontinuites correctly and
> I could not see how I could fix it, so xine uses a customised libmpeg2
> instead.
> I don't know, but if mythtv uses ffmpeg for DVD playback, that could
> be the problem.
>
> James
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The same problem is seen using OpenGL playback as with VDPAU.  I've
not tried using xine however.  I'll give that a go and see if I can
reproduce the issue.

Thanks,

Neil


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