[mythtv] Mediacodec problem with fire stick 4K

[John Pilkington]

On 07/12/2018 00:40, Aman Gupta wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:52 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 12/6/18 1:01 PM, Aman Gupta wrote:
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>>     On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 4:01 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         On 12/5/18 6:13 PM, Aman Gupta wrote:
>>         > I've gotten reports that this freeze issue also happens with
>>         h264
>>         > MediaCodec decoding on the 4K Stick, which further suggests
>>         this is an
>>         > issue with ffmpeg's mediacodec wrapper.
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>>         I have been running mediacodec playing h264 video on a fire
>>         stick 4K for
>>         a few hours each day for a couple of weeks and I have not seen
>>         any freeze.
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>>     Good to know. It's possible the h264 freezes are happening only in
>>     the UK with interlaced h264.
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>>     Are you experiencing freezes on mpeg2 decoding right away or
>>     several minutes after playback begins?
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>>     Aman
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>     mpeg2 decoding freezes immediately I start playing. I may see one or
>     two frames, but no more than that.
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> 
> Interesting, in my testing it decodes fine for 20-40minutes before 
> locking up. However I am using Surface-based (zero-copy) rendering.
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>     Peter

I just retried my first (two weeks ago) tests of VLC with full 
acceleration on a recording from BBC FOUR remuxed to a DVD-like mpg.  As 
before, playback was good for several minutes; then the video hung and 
the sound played on.

Now mythfrontend is working well for me in the UK with the settings 
recommended in the wiki and DVB-T/T2 material.  I haven't recently tried 
other settings.

John P