[mythtv-users] Cannot play recorded HD H264, advice on faster hardware needed

[Ronald Frazier]

My Core 2 Duo E6750 plays it back at 100% + 20% for the 2 cores, using
the internal player. It appears to be smooth, though there is a tiny
bit of jumpiness and blockiness, but I think that's just part of the
compression. Its hard to tell on such a short clip. Especially since
myth always seems to quit about 3 seconds early, so the clip is really
only 5 seconds instead of 8. But there is definitely no pausing or
stuttering

As I said, this is with the internal player. I'm using 0.21 fixes
(16961). I do get a bunch of errors in the log file:

AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
[h264 @ 0xb727f908]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0xb727f908]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xb727f908]no frame!

That block repeats a few dozen times, then I get a couple hundred of
the following:
[h264 @ 0xb727f908]Interlaced pictures + spatial direct mode is not implemented

Not sure what any of these mean, and whether any of it has any effect
on my performance measurements.


-- 
Ron