[mythtv] Problems with latest CVS & DVB & Unichrome

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 08:51, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2005 03:46 am, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 01:45, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > On Saturday 05 February 2005 08:17 pm, David Shay wrote:
> > > > Just as an FYI -- this problem has nothing to do with DVB directly --
> > > > I am using an Epia-M 10000 with the Unichrome drivers and XvMC VLD
> > > > and experiencing these exact same symptoms.  I also get more
> > > > "prebuffering pauses" than I have in a LONG time...
> > >
> > > Welp, one of you with the hardware running's really going to have to
> > > fix it. I can't, and don't really know what the problem is.
> > >
> > > Sounds like it could be Mark Anderson's patch, though.  Try commenting
> > > out the loop of av_remove_stream in AvFormatDecoder::Reset().
>
> <snip>
>
> > Just to confirm, that commit fixes the problem.
>
> Excellent, thanks for letting me know.
>
No probs although explaining to a three year old why he can't watch "Thomas" 
because you're testing a patch must classify as advanced negotiation skills.

> > There is still the occasional: "XvMCPutSlice: This context does not own
> > decoder!" error, if the section marked "Doesn't seem necessary" is left
> > commented out. Although it doesn't seem to be fatal and the picture
> > recovers.
>
> Heh.  I'll see about fixing that as well.  It was just taking up time and
> didn't seem necessary at all for normal XvMC mode.
>
Hmm, don't get the "context" errors flipping channels now, but they do occur 
if there's corruption in the mpeg stream. I guess its probably worth trying 
to sort out the vld locking properly.

And finally.... the bob-deint appears to effectively just working as one field 
deinterlacing on the epia-m. :(

-- 
Ivor
http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased?