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

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> 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

You should also read the section in the MythTV documentation on
mythtv.org regarding troubleshooting and capturing a backtrace of the
crash with debug symbols as this will likely be requested as well.

Kevin