[mythtv-users] Another ECS Liva Review

[Kirk Bocek]

On 8/12/2015 1:51 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 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
>

I set the profile to OpenGL (High and Normal) and the video played fine. 
So, yup, no MPEG-1 under VAAPI. Unfortunately, OpenGL playback of 
regular recordings showed a few artifacts and jerkiness, so this is only 
going to be a fallback. Fortunately, not a whole lot of MPEG-1 video in 
my library.