[mythtv-users] SVN vdpau and hdpvr playback

[john]

On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Al McIntosh wrote:

> I have trunk rev 19825, NVIDIA x86_64-180.25.
>
> Does anyone else running SVN with vdpau notice when you select an  
> hdpvr recording to watch, the audio begins but the screen is black,  
> exit play back, then select the same recording and it plays back fine?


Yes.


> Could it be related to a flood of the following frontend log entres:
>
> 2009-02-02 21:25:26.401 OpenGLVideoSync()
> 2009-02-02 21:25:26.401 Video sync method can't support double  
> framerate (refresh rate too low for bob deint)
> 2009-02-02 21:25:26.453 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
> 2009-02-02 21:27:19.513 [h264_vdpau @ 0x7f6e75a14400]mmco: unref  
> short failure
>
> 2009-02-02 21:06:31.385 [h264 @ 0x7f725ad47400]decode_slice_header  
> error
> 2009-02-02 21:06:31.393 [h264 @ 0x7f725ad47400]no frame!
> 2009-02-02 21:06:31.401 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
> 2009-02-02 21:06:31.419 [h264 @ 0x7f725ad47400]mmco: unref short  
> failure
> 2009-02-02 21:06:31.471 [h264 @ 0x7f725ad47400]mmco: unref short  
> failure
> 2009-02-02 21:06:31.475 [h264 @ 0x7f725ad47400]B picture before any  
> references, skipping

No, those warnings have nothing to do with VDPAU.  If you want to see  
more VDPAU messages, set an environment variable before you start  
mythfrontend.  For example:

export VDPAU_NVIDIA_DEBUG=2


John