[mythtv-users] Playing back videos from digital camera stutters

[Martin Moores]

On 28 Jul 2013 09:50, "Enno Middelberg" <enno.middelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I'd like to use MythTV for watching digital photographs and videos. I
> noticed that the playback of videos from an older Canon digital camera
> (*.avi, MJPEG, 640x480) stutters significantly, about once a second
> for maybe one-two tenths of a second. When I start mythfrontend with
> "-v playback", I get lots of the errors below.
>
> Interestingly, the larger videos from a newer Canon camera (*.MOV,
> 1920x1080, H264) play very well, as well as TV recordings in HD and
> all else.
>
> Any hints which setting I could tune?
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Enno
>
>
>
>
> 2013-07-28 10:34:48.963684 I  Player(0): Waiting for video buffers...
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.067154 N  Player(0): Waited 104ms for video
> buffers uuuuuuuuuuuPffffffffffffffffffff
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.170729 N  Player(0): Waited 207ms for video
> buffers uuuuuuuuuuuPffffffffffffffffffff
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.274274 N  Player(0): Waited 311ms for video
> buffers uuuuuuuuuuuPffffffffffffffffffff
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.377934 N  Player(0): Waited 414ms for video
> buffers uuuuuuuuuuuPffffffffffffffffffff
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.464251 N  Player(0): Timed out waiting for frames, and
>             there are not enough free frames. Discarding buffered frames.
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.464272 I  VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames(1)
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.464324 I  VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1):
> uuuuuuuuuuuPffffffffffffffffffff
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.464399 I  VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1):
> AAAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -- done
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.464438 I  VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 3:
> AAAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -- done()
> 2013-07-28 10:34:49.481834 N  Player(0): Waited 518ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAAPuuAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 2013-07-28 10:34:50.334958 I  Player(0): Waiting for video buffers...

Most likely the same issue I had a while ago. Details here :

http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-October/341775.html

Cheers

Martin
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