[mythtv] Mediacodec problem with avcodec_flush_buffers

[Peter Bennett]

I think it is only with deinterlace. It may also happen with h264 
interlaced content. I do not have much h264 interlaced content to test with.

Peter


On 07/26/2018 02:28 PM, Aman Gupta wrote:
> Did some tests and it looks like it's mpeg2 issue only.
>
> I forwarded your screenshot to my contact at Nvidia who has filed an 
> issue with their media team.
>
> Aman
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:41 AM Aman Gupta <aman at tmm1.net 
> <mailto:aman at tmm1.net>> wrote:
>
>     Is it happening with h264 too, or mpeg2 only?
>
>     Aman
>
>     On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 8:43 AM Aman Gupta <aman at tmm1.net
>     <mailto:aman at tmm1.net>> wrote:
>
>         On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 8:18 AM Peter Bennett
>         <pb.mythtv at gmail.com <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Aman
>
>             When doing a skip forward in playback, we use
>             avcodec_flush_buffers and
>             then start processing from a different part of the file.
>             We then receive
>             a couple of frames from the new location and then one
>             which contains
>             part of a frame from before the flush and part of a new
>             frame. There is
>             a diagonal jagged line across the middle. Above the jagged
>             line is part
>             of an image after the flush. Below the line is part of an
>             image before
>             the flush. This produces a noticeable irritating flash on
>             the screen.
>
>             In this case the second frame after the flush was
>             corrupted this way. It
>             is not consistent, sometimes the third frame, sometimes a
>             later one. I
>             tried to compensate by dropping some frames after a flush
>             but it is
>             problematic because it is inconsistent.
>
>             This link is a photograph of the screen when I stopped it
>             during playback.
>             https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxub9otpwuop3t9/IMG_20180709_173348703.jpg?dl=0
>
>
>         I have seen this too. It started when the shield updated to
>         Oreo. I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it besides
>         reporting to Nvidia.
>
>         Aman
>
>
>             I have other pictures from before and after the bad one if
>             you need them.
>
>             Peter
>
>

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