[mythtv-users] Pi3 Playback problems with 1080i MPEG2?

[Mike Bibbings]

On 29/05/16 17:30, Tom Harris wrote:
> I just set up a new Pi3 frontend on Raspbian Lenny + Peter’s .deb 
> package for 0.27.
> After some tweaking of various settings in raspbian and mythfrontend, 
> it is working well.
>
> The one issue is that playback of 1080i content has problems.  It 
> misses frames, pauses, and is generally not watchable.  720p video is 
> fine.
>
> I verified a few things in debugging it:  content streams are fine, 
> bandwidth to frontend is fine, settings are correct (as far as I can 
> tell).   I played back the same videos just fine via Kodi’s mythtv 
> add-on on my Pi2 as well as the Apple TV mythfrontend.
>
> ‘-v playback’ confirms openmax is enabled.   But, there is an error, 
> which I’m not sure if it’s normal or a real problem: “E  AFD: Unknown 
> decoding error"
>
> Has anyone else run into this?   Any more settings I should check?
>
>
> playback output:
>
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.139994 I  DOMX:2 SettingsChanged - begin
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.141568 I  OMX:2 Port 131: output, bufs=2(1)
>     bufsize=3133440 at 16 discontiguous, disabled, unpopulated
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.141705 I  OMX:2 Port 131: video, w=1920 h=1080
>     stride=1920 sliceH=1088 bps=0 fps=29.97
>     compress=OMX_VIDEO_CodingUnused enc=OMX_COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedPlanar
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.142096 I  DOMX:2
>     OMX_InterlaceFieldsInterleavedUpperFirst
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.142249 I  DOMX:2 Pixel aspect x/y = 1/1
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.150091 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS
>     Deactivated 1
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.150466 I  Player(0): Waiting for video buffers...
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.172063 I  DOMX:2 SettingsChanged - end
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.172111 E  AFD: Unknown decoding error
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.215305 I  VDP: GetFilteredDeint() : openmax ->
>     'openmaxadvanced'
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.215366 I  Player(0): Enabled deinterlacing
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.668685 I  VideoOutput: Created YV12 OSD.
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.676137 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.676169 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.679867 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.679896 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.775099 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.775131 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.818586 I  Player(0): Video is 4.58537 frames
>     behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.832584 I  Player(0): Video is 7.77714 frames
>     behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
>     2016-05-29 08:51:37.845260 I  Player(0): Video is 9.91623 frames
>     behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
>     (snip)
>
>
I presume your reference to Raspbian Lenny is a typo - pi3 should have 
Jessie.

Can you confirm that mpeg2 licence is installed on the Pi3.

Mike
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