[mythtv-users] Another ECS Liva Review

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 11/08/15 17:55, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> However going through my collection of videos, I found one that won't
> play. On my Nvidia frontends it plays fine. Through VAAPI I get an
> "Unknown Error" when I try to play it through the built-in player. On
> the Nvidia frontends, one is using mplayer, the other is built-in. But
> both play it fine.
> 
> FFMpeg -i displays the file's information as:
> 
> Duration: 00:03:27.88, start: 0.264578, bitrate: 1848 kb/s
>     Stream #0:0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p(tv), 352x240 [SAR
> 200:219 DAR 880:657], 1600 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 29.97 tbc
>     Stream #0:1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16p, 224 kb/s
> 
> I am guessing this is a VAAPI limitation.
> _______________________________________________

That video appears to be only "mpeg1video". The vaapi profiles
only include mpeg2 not mpeg1, i suspect we should be falling back
to software decoding in this case

Does it play if you switch to a software decoding profile?

Regards
Stuart