[mythtv-users] Playing back videos from digital camera stutters

[Roger Siddons]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:39:57 +0100, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:

> On 28/07/13 10:24, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, 28 July 2013, Enno Middelberg wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>
>>     I'd like to use MythTV for watching digital photographs and videos.  
>> I
>>     noticed that the playback of videos from an older Canon digital  
>> camera
>>     (*.avi, MJPEG, 640x480) stutters significantly, about once a second
>>     for maybe one-two tenths of a second. When I start mythfrontend with
>>     "-v playback", I get lots of the errors below.
>>
>>
>> Start mythfrontend or mythavtest on one of those video with -v  
>> audio,playback,libav --loglevel=debug
>> Can you post a sample somewhere? And lodge a bug on code.mythtv.org  
>> <http://code.mythtv.org>
>>
>
> There's already a ticket for this issue at  
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10942
>

Just wanted to add that 10942 references 10706, which has some preliminary  
debugging. I couldn't get any further debugging it but I've been running  
with the suggested (and effective) work-around/hack for over a year now  
with no ill-effects.