[mythtv-users] Upgraded to .21 having some problems..

[Steven Adeff]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Noah Markon <nmarkon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello..
>
> I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 to get the Myth .21 and everything
> seems to working ok, but I'm having a couple issues with some things.
> One of reasons I finally upgraded was to play some 264  files I
> encoded using Handbrake. Before the files would not play at all, just
> a black screen then kick back out to the video selection. Now some
> play, however the others play but skip every second or two. The logs
> give me the dreaded "Prebuffering Pause."  Normally I get this message
> when my CPU is maxed, however during playback my CPU usage doesn't get
> above 50%...
>
> Here's a snippet from my log:
> 2008-12-14 20:50:48.233 DPMS Deactivated
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.160 AFD: Opened codec 0xc34f650, id(H264) type(Video)
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.160 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.160 AFD: Opened codec 0xc34f9d0, id(AAC) type(Audio)
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.166 Opening audio device 'mixed-digital'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.166 Opening ALSA audio device 'mixed-digital'.
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.259 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video Texture'
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.368 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 1280 H: 720
> 2008-12-14 20:50:49.805 Unknown altfont: infofont in textarea: callsign
> 2008-12-14 20:50:50.408 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
> 2008-12-14 20:50:50.410 Using realtime priority.
> 2008-12-14 20:50:50.419 No DTS Seeking Hack!
> 2008-12-14 20:50:50.511 OpenGLVideoSync()
> 2008-12-14 20:50:50.548 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
> 2008-12-14 20:50:52.032 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2008-12-14 20:50:53.332 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2008-12-14 20:50:54.399 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2008-12-14 20:50:55.366 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2008-12-14 20:50:56.662 TV: Attempting to change from
> WatchingPreRecorded to None
> 2008-12-14 20:50:56.682 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- begin
> 2008-12-14 20:50:56.682 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- middle
> 2008-12-14 20:50:56.682 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- end
>
> I've tried various decoders, interlacers, nothing seems to make a
> difference.. So does any one have any suggestions on how to get these
> videos to play using the internal player? Or any one have any
> suggestions on Handbrake encoding settings for playback via MythVideo?
>
> Thanks!

Do you have a dual core processor?


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