[mythtv-users] The state of trunk, vdpau, hd-pvr, etc

[John P Poet]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Greg Woods<greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>
> h.264 playback is still not perfect though. I get a little band of
> distortion rolling down the screen, that looks kind of like what I used
> to see sometimes when all TV was analog OTA. I'm sure the cause is
> different though :-) But when I reported this previously I got zero
> response, so apparently this is something that doesn't occur for most
> people.


I have not had the problem, but I don't use VDPAU.


> Also, time stretch doesn't work for h.264 recordings. It works
> OK for a minute or so, then the audio totally goes south and sounds
> jerky and crackly (and yes, I do have extra audio buffering enabled, I
> can't play h.264 files at all without that checked).


This is a VDPAU/H.264 problem.  If your machine is powerful enough to
use the standard ffmpeg decoder, then timestretch works fine.


John
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