[mythtv-users] mythffmpeg stream analysis defeated, works with ffmpeg

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 30 October 2013 07:34, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> I made another similar recording today, deliberately overrunning the
> end-of-service when the cbbc slot is taken over, AIUI, by either BBC THREE
> or BBC FOUR. This one also failed to play with the normal frontend but, as
> JYA suggested, it does play with the mythfrontend -O FFMPEGTS=1 switch.
>
> I don't know if this /is/ related to #11882.  The frontend becomes
> unresponsive  with repeated blocks of  'Player(n): Waited 100ms for decoder
> to pause', but it does eventually respond to Escape and puts up a 'Need to
> switch video renderer' box.
>

is this happening with -O FFMPEGTS=1 only?

The need to switch video renderer I believe is occurring if you are
using VAAPI and you aren't using OpenGL (you must use OpenGL with
VAAPI)