[mythtv-users] mythplayer.cpp:2176 (PrebufferEnoughFrames) Player(6): Waited 102ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAfff

[Peter Bennett]

On 07/21/2016 01:35 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I'm already using VDPAU Slim which has the decoder set to NVidia VDPAU
> acceleration.  Will Standard be better?  I would have thought VDPAU
> would have been the most efficient/CPU friendly.  Not that CPU is even
> pegged during playback.

Generally the VDPAU decoder is faster. However it is less forgiving. If
there is something wrong with the video, Standard will work better.
Standard uses ffmpeg, which will decode almost anything, while VDPAU
will only decode certain formats. There are probably video cards out
there that do not decode properly. I have on occasion had to switch to
Standard to get past problems viewing certain videos. With modern
processors, you don't really need VDPAU decoding, the system processor
is more than up to the task. Even a raspberry pi can play MPEG 2 HD with
software decoding using ffmpeg.