[mythtv-users] Video playback freezing

Matthew Gleed mgleed at gleed.us
Sat Oct 23 05:26:15 UTC 2004


I'm having an issue with playback frequently freezing.  I have a PVR-350 
which I'm using for TV-OUT.  While playing recorded programs the video 
will freeze periodically.  If I jump forward or backwards the playback 
will usually resume.  The last time this happened I was watching the 
mythfrontend log.  Nothing was logged while the playback was frozen but 
as soon as I jumped forward a bunch of 'bad newframes' printed out:

bad newframes: 1 12720 12781 12734
bad newframes: 1 12720 12786 12734
bad newframes: 1 12720 12790 12734
bad newframes: 1 12720 12793 12734
... SNIP ...
bad newframes: 11 12720 12829 12734
bad newframes: 11 12720 12829 12734
bad newframes: 12 12720 12829 12734
bad newframes: 12 12720 12829 12734
bad newframes: 13 12720 12829 12734
bad newframes: 13 12720 12829 12734
bad newframes: 13 12720 12829 12734

I will try to get some debug info to post.  In the mean time I would 
appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks!

Attached is my settings.pro which I compiled myth with.

System Info:

Gentoo Pentium 4 with 2.6.8-r10 dev-sources.  Running ivtv-0.2.0-rc1o.  
Mythtv CVS as of evening of 10/22/04.

-mgleed
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#CONFIG += debug
CONFIG += release

PREFIX = /usr/local

LIBVERSION = 0.16

INCLUDEPATH += $${PREFIX}/include
INCLUDEPATH *= /usr/local/include

DEFINES += _GNU_SOURCE
DEFINES += _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
DEFINES += PREFIX=\"$${PREFIX}\"

release {
        DEFINES += MMX
        QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE = -O3 -march=pentiumpro -fomit-frame-pointer
    macx {
        DEFINES -= MMX
        # Don't use -O3, it causes some Qt moc methods to go missing
        QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE = -O2
    }
        QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE = $${QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE}
}

EXTRA_LIBS = -lfreetype -lmp3lame

unix:linux*: {
    CONFIG  += linux backend
    DEFINES += CONFIG_VIDEO4LINUX
}
#unix:freebsd*: {
#    CONFIG  += freebsd backend
#    DEFINES += CONFIG_VIDEO4LINUX
#}

# X11 support
CONFIG += using_x11

# Default Xv support
CONFIG += using_xv
EXTRA_LIBS += -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXinerama -lXv -lX11 -lXext -lXxf86vm

# IVTV (PVR-x50) support.  Disable if building on Windows.
CONFIG += using_ivtv
DEFINES += USING_IVTV

# LCDProc support
#DEFINES += LCD_DEVICE

# Default audio output, OSS
CONFIG += using_oss
DEFINES += USING_OSS

# Native ALSA support
CONFIG += using_alsa
ALSA_LIBS = -lasound

# Native ARTS support
#CONFIG += using_arts
#ARTS_LIBS = -L/opt/kde3/lib -ldl -lartsc -lpthread
#EXTRA_LIBS += -L/opt/kde3/lib -ldl -lartsc -lpthread
#INCLUDEPATH += /opt/kde3/include
# For Mandrake, use the following:
#ARTS_LIBS = -ldl -lartsc -lpthread
#EXTRA_LIBS += -ldl -lartsc -lpthread
#INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/artsc

# DVB support
#CONFIG += using_dvb
#DEFINES += USING_DVB
# Note: INCLUDEPATH should point to the directory with
#   'linux/dvb/frontend.h', not the directory with frontend.h
#INCLUDEPATH += /usr/src/linuxtv-dvb-1.0.1/include

# Joystick menu support
#CONFIG += using_joystick_menu

# Native lirc support
CONFIG += using_lirc
LIRC_LIBS = -llirc_client

# XvMC support, modify as necessary.
#CONFIG += using_xvmc
#DEFINES += USING_XVMC
#EXTRA_LIBS += -lXvMCNVIDIA -lXvMC

# XvMC_VLD support, modify as necessary. Incompatible with normal XvMC support.
#CONFIG += using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld
#DEFINES += USING_XVMC USING_XVMC_VLD
#EXTRA_LIBS += -lviaXvMC -lXvMC

# DirectFB support
#CONFIG += using_directfb
#EXTRA_LIBS += `directfb-config --libs`
#QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += `directfb-config --cflags`

# Windows support
#CONFIG += win32
#DEFINES += _WIN32

# Mac OS X support
#macx {
#    For source that uses Qt, Q_OS_MACX is defined.
#    For source that uses config.h, CONFIG_DARWIN is defined.
#    For other source (e.g. libmythtv), we define this
#    DEFINES += CONFIG_DARWIN
#}

# DirectX support
#CONFIG += using_directx
#DEFINES += USING_DIRECTX

# OpenGL support for vertical retrace sync
#DEFINES += USING_OPENGL_VSYNC
#EXTRA_LIBS += -lGL -lGLU
#CONFIG += using_opengl

# Allow use of XrandR to change display resolutions
#CONFIG += using_xrandr
#DEFINES += USING_XRANDR



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