[mythtv-users] mythbuntu video stutter

[Johnny Walker]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Ramasubramanian Ramesh <rramesh at ti.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, now hit Edit on the first entry in the list. Hit next, then you'll
> >> see a field for Custom Filters. Add "vdpaubuffersize=32" (without the
> >> quotes) to this box - if there's already something in the box,
> >> separate entries with a comma. (ie. yours might read
> >> "vdpaucolorspace=auto,vdpaubuffersize=32").
> >> Repeat for the other entries in the list.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> >  Thanks. I will try this. I have a 9400GT with 512M video memory. So, can
> I
> > use a bigger number? Will that be even better/robust? or will it actually
> > messup things?
> >
> > Ramesh
>
> Valid values are between 6 and 50 - I believe the default is 17. I
> haven't found any content which needed higher than 32.
>
> - Chris
>
>
I have a Revo and I had to move from 6 to 9 last night for playing mkv files
that I acquired elsewhere. I was getting corrupted playback and the
following in the logs:

2010-03-25 08:18:25.766 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame B. Dropping.
(au)UuULL
2010-03-25 08:18:25.766 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame A. Dropping.
uUuULL
2010-03-25 08:18:25.783 GetNextFreeFrame() unable to lock frame 100 times.
Discarding Frames.
2010-03-25 08:18:25.783 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame F. Dropping.
AAAL(au)U
2010-03-25 08:18:26.206 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame B. Dropping.
LUUlAu
2010-03-25 08:18:26.440 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame B. Dropping.
UuUuaL
2010-03-25 08:18:26.548 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame D. Dropping.
AuLUlU
2010-03-25 08:18:26.849 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame D. Dropping.
UuauUL
2010-03-25 08:18:26.977 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame C. Dropping.
LauUuL
2010-03-25 08:18:27.357 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame B. Dropping.
uU(au)LUL
2010-03-25 08:18:27.358 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame C. Dropping.
uUuLUL
2010-03-25 08:18:27.374 GetNextFreeFrame() unable to lock frame 100 times.
Discarding Frames.

Moving to vdpaubuffersize=9 (from 6) fixed it.

-Johnny
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