[mythtv-users] All videos pause secs before their end

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 18 May 2013 09:24, Richard <peper03 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/05/13 20:06, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
>>
>> I am facing a very strange problem on one specific frontend. If I let
>> any video play until the end, it enters pause 0-4 secs before end (the
>> actual numbers I've noticed). Pressing "i" shows the video as paused. I
>> can exit the video by pressing esc or "play", but it's annoying. No
>> other frontend exhibits this behaviour.
>> The system is an amd 5050e, with Nvidia 9500GT, using vdpau for playback
>> and optical 5.1 sound output.
>>
>> Recordings are not affected.
>
>
> Coincidentally, I just discovered the same problem.  It seems to be caused by a non-initialised member variable relating to playback of MHEG streams (e.g. BBC iPlayer).
>
> I've added a patch to the ticket which added this functionality to master.  I didn't create a new ticket, as the original ticket was still open.
>
> The patch is here:
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/10019/0001-Added-missing-initialisation-of-MHEG-member-variable.patch
>
> I'll admit I've not investigated too much here but it seemed to cure the problem for me.
>
> You could try running the frontend with -v mheg and look for a line starting '[mhi] Stream 0x' when playback pauses.
>
> Richard.

This is surprising that this patch fixes anything other than a warning.
C++ should call the default constructor for m_notify, which is an int
and the default constructor for a int is to set it to 0...

While it's good practice to initialise a variable, it shouldn't be set
to a random value at that start.

Which compiler are you using?