[mythtv] Failure while playing one recording on Raspberry PI 2

[Peter Bennett]

On 01/18/2016 12:34 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 01/15/2016 08:49 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> I am using the raspberry Pi 2 pre-built package on wheezy. There is one
>> program I have recorded that causes the frontend to abnormally terminate
>> when playing the recording. I assume that something is corrupt in the
>> recording and the player fails. This recording plays perfectly normally
>> on a mythtv frontend Ubuntu i386 with VDPAU. The failure is
>> reproducible, it happens every time I play this recording, on two
>> raspberry pi's. All other recordings work fine, I have been using
>> raspberry pi for about a month on a daily basis and all has worked
>> perfectly apart from this one.
>> Attached is an extract from the frontend log from the failure. I have
>> saved the mpg file for testing if you need it. The error occurs soon
>> after the start of the recording. It plays about 15 seconds from the
>> start of the recording, then fails.
>>
>> Peter
>>
> I have an update to this problem - it is not a one-time corrupted file.
>
> I record a program "necn now" every week. It seems every time I play a
> recording of this program I have this problem. I have the system set to
> start recordings 15 seconds before the program starts. When I play the
> program with Raspberry PI, it plays the 15 seconds, then the screen goes
> blank with a message "Please wait ...", then the front end shuts down.
>
> As mentioned before, this does not happen when playing the recording
> with i386 or amd 64 architecture with VDPAU.
>
> Peter
>

I looked at the recording further and I see that the first 15 seconds
are recorded at Resolution 528x480. After 15 seconds the resolution
changes to 1920x1080. MythTV with VDPAU and VLC are able to handle this,
but MythTV on Raspberry PI with Openmax crashes.

Peter