[mythtv] Frontend dying on aspect ratio change

Christian Hack christianh at edmi.com.au
Fri Apr 9 19:14:18 EDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Wildgoose" <lists at wildgooses.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Frontend dying on aspect ratio change


> Ed Wildgoose wrote:
>
> > The following snippet from one of my recordings *usually* kills the
> > frontend at the point the aspect ratio changes from 16:9 to 4:3 (just
> > as Friends starts)
> >
> > http://www.wildgooses.com/downloads/duff.nuv   (around 7Mb and FWIW:
> > it came from a dvb-t device)
>
>
> Aha, I have managed to trace this to the kerneldeint filter!!  If
> someone else could just repro this for me, please download the above
> file, in the Setup |  TV Settings |  Playback option, add "kerneldeint"
> as your filter option.  Then try "mythtv duff.nuv" - I think this should
> reliably die now.
>
> I also managed to get a bt which dies in mmx_yuv2rgb - I will try and
> repro a few more times and see if I can narrow it down a little more.
> However, I'm pretty sure that I am getting close now.  It's something in
> the filter functions I think
>

Still works fine on my machine with kerneldeint running. Played at least 5
times with no dramas.

CH



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