[mythtv-users] Playing 1212 files was: ONLINE ORDER#XXXXXX...

[Seth Daniel]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:02:18PM -0700, Steve Heistand wrote:
> > 
> > A *lot* of these:
> >   [h264 @ 0xb7244c88]Interlaced pictures + spatial direct mode is not implemented
> > 
> > Quite a few of these:
> >   NVP: Video is 30 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
> > 
> > Also some:
> >   NVP: prebuffering pause
> >   NVP: Waiting for prebuffer.. X ....
> >   NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > 
> > One curious thing:
> >   nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver?
> 
> one thing that was biting me, my output is 720 to my tv but was recording
> a 1080 signal. I was getting issues like this due to lack of power to 
> both decode the h264 stream and reconvert it to 1280x720 resolution.
> setting my recordings to be only 720 got rid of this issue.
> (STB has the option to only output 720p no matter what the channel was
> originally)


In my case I'm not making the recordings.  I'm just trying to gauge if
my FE can cope with the output of one of these devices.  I got the clip
here:

http://www.geektonic.com/2008/06/hauppauge-hd-pvr-unboxing-first-look.html

It's a 1080i clip and I'm outputting to a 1080i device.  With my TV +
driver I have to deinterlace the output.  This may be the biggest
problem I have.  

The above link also has 720p clips.  I'll try those too.  However, if I
can't playback 1080i material to my 1080i television I have to consider
my tests to be failures and I'll have to look for some other option...
such as coreavc.

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seth /\ sethdaniel.org