[mythtv-users] Frontend crashes with 0.23 and VDPAU with WMV3 files

Jim Chisholm jim at electron.phys.dal.ca
Wed Apr 21 09:40:25 UTC 2010


On 10-04-21 01:00 AM, Mark Kendall wrote:
> On 21 April 2010 11:02, Jim Chisholm<jim at electron.phys.dal.ca>  wrote:
>    
>> Is anyone else experiencing consistent frontend crashes with 0.23, an Nvidia
>> 220 card and the latest
>> 195.36.15 drivers specifically with WMV3 files? This is with Ubuntu 10.04.
>> Other files (avi, mp4 etc) play fine, it's just the WMV3 files that crash on
>> termination.
>> 0.22 didn't display this behavior.
>> Regardless of my VDPAU settings (High, Normal, Slim or CPU+) the file will
>> play OK but on termination
>> or ESC the frontend crashes back to the desktop.
>> Could it be a pulseaudio interactions?
>> On my MacBook frontend on the other hand with  9600M GT the crashing stops
>> if I use VDPAU Slim but
>> VDPAU Normal or high crash as does my FE/BE machine with the 220 video.
>> Thanks all
>>      
> Jim
>
> I suggest you open a ticket on trac and attach the complete output of:
>
> mythfrontend -v playback
>
> regards
>
> Mark
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>    
Thanks Mark I'll do that.
To further confuse the issue, XBMC trunk with VDPAU plays any WMV3 file 
file fine but chokes
on any other format! XBMC plays everything fine without VDPAU enabled.
Cheers
Jim


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