[mythtv] Problems with latest CVS & DVB & Unichrome

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Sun Feb 6 08:51:00 UTC 2005


On Sunday 06 February 2005 03:46 am, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 01:45, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 February 2005 08:17 pm, David Shay wrote:
> > > Just as an FYI -- this problem has nothing to do with DVB directly -- I
> > > am using an Epia-M 10000 with the Unichrome drivers and XvMC VLD and
> > > experiencing these exact same symptoms.  I also get more "prebuffering
> > > pauses" than I have in a LONG time...
> >
> > Welp, one of you with the hardware running's really going to have to fix
> > it. I can't, and don't really know what the problem is.
> >
> > Sounds like it could be Mark Anderson's patch, though.  Try commenting
> > out the loop of av_remove_stream in AvFormatDecoder::Reset().
>
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>
> Just to confirm, that commit fixes the problem.

Excellent, thanks for letting me know.

> There is still the occasional: "XvMCPutSlice: This context does not own
> decoder!" error, if the section marked "Doesn't seem necessary" is left
> commented out. Although it doesn't seem to be fatal and the picture
> recovers.

Heh.  I'll see about fixing that as well.  It was just taking up time and 
didn't seem necessary at all for normal XvMC mode.

Isaac


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