[mythtv-users] CBS HD content suddenly doesn't play

[Matthew Zimmerman]

I've been having the same errors with CBS shows.  Not using xvmc in
the frontend plays them fine (with some skipping, not enough power!).
I've been transcoding them and then they'll play just fine.  If anyone
working on this issue wants specific output, just let me know and I'll
record another CBS show ;)

Matt Z

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:45 PM, raphy <rpooser at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Raphael <rpooser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> H Z wrote:
>>>
>>> I checked the file sizes on my mythbackend and they're consistent across
>>> CBS shows prior to Jan14 and after. An hour of HD programming runs about
>>> 5.1-5.6 GB in size.
>>>
>>> I'll keep digging and if I figure it out I'll let people know. Seems
>>> likely it's something to do with the lack of power of the appletv clearly
>>> since it plays fine elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>>
>> H Z did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same issue as you. Suddenly
>> shows recorded after 1/14 on cbs won't play on my frontend. Normally shows
>> play fine with xvmc and all other HD channels play fine. Because of this I
>> would find it hard to believe it's an issue of low frontend power.
>>
>
> I've figured out that the problem is xvmc. files playback once I turn
> xvmc off and go back to using the standard decoder or libmpeg2. The
> playback is not fast enough though. Switching back to xvmc I get a
> black screen and a bunch of errors endlessly spit out by the frontend
> until I exit out of the player, which is showing only a black screen
> and no sound. Here are the errors the frontend throws out:
>
> 2009-02-12 22:10:56.239 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
> 2009-02-12 22:10:56.282 [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb735cb88]get_buffer()
> failed (1 1073741824 2 (nil))
>
> Seems to be something related to xvmc. I wonder if a driver update
> would help things.
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