[mythtv-users] 0.24 Mac OS X Build

[Eric Holt]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:03 PM, John Sturgeon <john.sturgeon at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:15 AM, John Sturgeon wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> >
> >> At 7:55 AM -0800 1/16/11, John Sturgeon wrote:
> >>> The main problem I have had is with skipping forward and back in shows
> lagging by about .4 seconds each time... makes for a very slugging/painful
> viewing experience.  Also, watching HD content on my Mac Mini suddenly
> became a chore.  Some settings would work to get 1080i back up on it's feet,
> but 720p from ABC seemed to be very jumpy/jerky no matter what I did.
>  Crashes at least once/day (WAF is going VERY down at this point).  Exiting
> a show would take up to three seconds.
> >>
> >> Interesting.  Sounds similar to the problem described in:
> >>
> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9223
> >>
> >> Note that Mark only applied this commit to fixes/0.24 on Jan. 14.
> >
> > I've been following this closely, and yes, I built yesterday, but perhaps
> my osx-packager did not pull the correct version since I'm still getting
> some of the same  Waited 100ms for video buffers
> ULAAAUUAuUALUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAA errors.
> >
> >>
> >>> ...
> >>> I've been successfully building 0.24/fixes from Git and have been happy
> with the update.  skipping forward/back still lags a bit, but not so much as
> to make it unusable, and playback of all HD content is as smooth as usual.
> >>
> >> Also interesting.  Did you rebuild in the last day-and-a-half to pick up
> the commit above?  A number of people are having trouble getting a
> successful build, see:
> >>
> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9426
> >>
> >> If you do rebuild, make sure you use the newest version of
> osx-packager.pl as it will download and install Yasm (if you don't have it
> already).  There are several assembler-optimized routines in the ffmpeg code
> that Myth uses.  *I* think that made a huge difference to the on screen
> display responsiveness but maybe I had some other config problem between the
> two builds.
> >
> > I downloaded/compiled/installed YASM myself before the build, but yes...
> I did build yesterday.
> >
> > Looking at the current build of mythtv on the mac sourceforge site, I see
> it updated yesterday, I find it difficult to decipher Git versions... when
> was the version up there (v0.24-108-g798359f-dirty) built?
>
> Just to follow myself up, I downloaded the build on the sourceforge site,
> and it is definitely not the same one that I built yesterday.  It starts
> playback, but if I skip forward, back, pause or anything, it just keeps
> playing for about 2 minutes delaying my command.  Finally, after a couple
> minutes elapses, it begins to play my commands.  The kids needed to watch
> some football today, so I rolled back and didn't catch the log file.  If I
> have a chance, I'll dig back into the log file from earlier today when I
> tested the build and post any results.
>
>

The latest version up on Sourceforge is really borked for me.  I select a
video to play, and it starts to play -- but I immediately get the spinning
beachball.  The video, however, continues to play just fine -- but keyboard
commands are completely ignored and there's no response from Mythfrontend at
all.  I have to force-kill (cmd-opt-esc) to exit out of Myth.  Ouch.

I had to revert back to the previous good build just now, as my partner
would kill me if we couldn't watch The Simpsons and what-not tonight ;)
 [I'm already in hot water for upgrading to 0.24 -- I better not press my
luck.]

Tomorrow, I'll roll this latest build back onto our Mac Mini and get some
log files.

#Eric
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