[mythtv-users] Frontend sometimes reports MPEG2 errors (DVB-C)
Thomas Börkel
thomas at boerkel.de
Fri Aug 11 16:28:46 UTC 2006
HI!
Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
>> That's right. Is it worth switching from ffmpeg to the other one in
>> the settings?
>
> My experience is that ffmpeg is less vulnerable to these errors. I base
> this not on MythTV itself, but on mplayer -vfm ffmpeg correctly playing
> back recordings which exhibit corrupted display with mplayer -vfm
> libmpeg2 or when transcoded with mythtranscode (which I apparently can
> not configure to use ffmpeg on ATrpms 0.19-fixes binaries).
I have one recording, where commflagging with ffmpeg segfaults and
libmpeg2 succeeds. Apparently, they have both their good and bad sides.
IMHO, if they find errors and the picture is a bit distorted for a short
moment while watching, OK. But segfaults...
Thomas
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