[mythtv] Ticket #9971: Improve CrystalHD decoding for BCM 70012

[Mark Kendall]

On 11 October 2011 14:22, Chaogui Zhang <czhang1974 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:30 PM, <noreply at mythtv.org> wrote:
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>> #9971: Improve CrystalHD decoding for BCM 70012
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>>  Reporter:  czhang1974@…             |          Owner:  markk
>>     Type:  Patch - Bug Fix          |         Status:  accepted
>>  Priority:  minor                    |      Milestone:  0.25
>> Component:  MythTV - Video Decoding  |        Version:  0.24-fixes
>>  Severity:  medium                   |     Resolution:
>>  Keywords:  crystalhd                |  Ticket locked:  0
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> Thanks for testing the patch. I have not had time to do much further testing
> since my initial patch.
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> One other thing that I noticed while trying to get 1080i to work back in
> August was that the way avformatdecoder feeds/retrieves the packet to the
> private decoder makes it hard for the 70012 to maintain a proper queue for
> decoding. I was going to rewrite the crystalhd code to make it less
> dependent on the avformatdecoder, but life got busy after summer was over. I
> probably won't have time to look into any of this any time soon, but I hope
> this is useful for anyone interested in further improving the code.
> Best regards,

Can you remember what the issue was with AvFormatDecoder?

regards

Mark