[mythtv-users] Playback profiles and xvmc

Johan johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be
Fri Apr 4 11:50:49 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 02:36 -0700, John Finlay wrote:
> I was trying out some playback profiles to see what worked best and I 
> decided to try and create a new profile. I accidentally delected the 
> CPU-- profile and then created a new simple profile using xvmc. Now when 
> I try to placyback using xvmc the FE crashes/exits and I see a message 
> in the log:
> 
> 2008-04-04 01:27:23.048 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0xa2985d50, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:27:23.057 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
> 
> I was able to use the CPU-- profile just fine and xvmc was working OK.
> 
> How do I get the CPU-- profile back? And what's the problem with the 
> xvmc playback.
> 
> I'm using Mythbuntu with myth 0.21 from the backports. I have an nvidia 
> 7 series integrated graphics on the MB (GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 
> 630a) driving 1080p tv at 1920x1080.
> 
> The XVMC messages (in case they are of use) are:
> 
> 2008-04-03 23:37:41.669 AFD: Opened codec 0xae4d8d30, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video)
> 2008-04-03 23:40:07.848 AFD: Opened codec 0x84ff7c0, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) 
> type(Video)
> 2008-04-03 23:58:23.168 AFD: Opened codec 0x8526b70, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) 
> type(Video)
> 2008-04-04 00:47:57.601 AFD: Opened codec 0x846f210, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) 
> type(Video)
> 2008-04-04 00:53:53.759 AFD: Opened codec 0x85c23f0, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) 
> type(Video)
> 2008-04-04 01:27:23.048 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0xa2985d50, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:30:33.873 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x8326f70, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:32:40.218 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x833e190, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:36:51.921 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x8355ad0, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:38:59.799 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x82fdab0, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:45:17.614 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0xa2a10370, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 01:49:31.363 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x82f5110, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 02:04:54.725 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x82d2e30, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 2008-04-04 02:28:53.685 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x8343fe0, 
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
> 
> I tried restarting X and rebooting but no luck.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles#CPU.2B.2B_default_settings

I had exactly the same problem, just restored the original profile and
now use "High Quality"

Johan




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