[mythtv-users] Pi3 Playback problems with 1080i MPEG2?

[Tom Harris]

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 29/05/16 17:30, Tom Harris wrote:
>
> I just set up a new Pi3 frontend on Raspbian Lenny + Peter’s .deb package
> for 0.27.
> After some tweaking of various settings in raspbian and mythfrontend, it
> is working well.
>
> The one issue is that playback of 1080i content has problems.  It misses
> frames, pauses, and is generally not watchable.  720p video is fine.
>
> I verified a few things in debugging it:  content streams are fine,
> bandwidth to frontend is fine, settings are correct (as far as I can tell).
>   I played back the same videos just fine via Kodi’s mythtv add-on on my
> Pi2 as well as the Apple TV mythfrontend.
>
> ‘-v playback’ confirms openmax is enabled.   But, there is an error, which
> I’m not sure if it’s normal or a real problem: “E  AFD: Unknown decoding
> error"
>
> Has anyone else run into this?   Any more settings I should check?
>
>
> playback output:
>
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.139994 I  DOMX:2 SettingsChanged - begin
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.141568 I  OMX:2 Port 131: output, bufs=2(1)
> bufsize=3133440 at 16 discontiguous, disabled, unpopulated
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.141705 I  OMX:2 Port 131: video, w=1920 h=1080
> stride=1920 sliceH=1088 bps=0 fps=29.97 compress=OMX_VIDEO_CodingUnused
> enc=OMX_COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedPlanar
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.142096 I  DOMX:2
> OMX_InterlaceFieldsInterleavedUpperFirst
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.142249 I  DOMX:2 Pixel aspect x/y = 1/1
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.150091 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.150466 I  Player(0): Waiting for video buffers...
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.172063 I  DOMX:2 SettingsChanged - end
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.172111 E  AFD: Unknown decoding error
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.215305 I  VDP: GetFilteredDeint() : openmax ->
> 'openmaxadvanced'
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.215366 I  Player(0): Enabled deinterlacing
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.668685 I  VideoOutput: Created YV12 OSD.
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.676137 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.676169 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.679867 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.679896 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.775099 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.775131 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.818586 I  Player(0): Video is 4.58537 frames behind
> audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.832584 I  Player(0): Video is 7.77714 frames behind
> audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
> 2016-05-29 08:51:37.845260 I  Player(0): Video is 9.91623 frames behind
> audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.
> (snip)
>
>
> I presume your reference to Raspbian Lenny is a typo - pi3 should have
> Jessie.
>

Yes, that’s right.. I don’t know who Lenny is :)


> Can you confirm that mpeg2 licence is installed on the Pi3.
>

Yes, the mpeg2 license is installed and verified with the command ‘vcgencmd
codec_enabled MPG2’



>
> Mike
>
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