[mythtv] Found a severe decoding bug in mythffplay

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri May 4 19:44:06 UTC 2012


On 05/04/2012 03:23 PM, Mark Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 5/3/2012 23:39, Mark Robinson wrote:
>>> I just upgraded to MythTV-0.25-fixes and I've found a rather serious
>>> decoding bug.
>>>
>>> If you use mythffplay to play a video file then the blue and red color
>>> channels will be reversed.
>>>
>>> If I play the video on a different machine, it works fine.
>>> If I play the video using Xine or mplayer on the same machine, it works
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> Only mythffplay causes problems.
>> If `mythffplay` doesn't work, the best option would be to disable it, or
>> just simply not use it.  MythTV's diagnostic playback tool is `mythavtest`.
>>   We added `mythffmpeg` to give a static copy of the ffmpeg transcoding
>> utility for scripts to use, built off MythTV's internal snapshot of the
>> ffmpeg libraries.  `mythffplay` gets compiled for no reason other than we
>> could.
> I've tried mythavtest.  It also swaps the color channels.
>

Are you using a version of MythTV after Apr 13 (either 0.25-fixes or 
unstable/development/master)?

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/0f8476995

Mike


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