<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I've finally got a debug dumps from a recent Jean-Yves MythTV build that shows the two issues I'm regularly seeing with VDPAU playback of freeview|HD here in NZ.</div><div><br></div><div>1. MythTV frontend exits during a channel change</div><div><br></div><div>Test environment</div><div><div> * Ubuntu 8.10 32bit</div><div> * NVidia VDPAU 185.19</div><div> * mythtv - 1:0.21.0+fixes-20550-openglvdpau-debug-0ubuntu2 </div></div><div><br></div><div>You can find the debug files here</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_crash/gdb.txt">http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_crash/gdb.txt</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_crash/myth.log">http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_crash/myth.log</a></div><div><br></div><div>To produce the problem I select a freeview|HD only channel, and then change between random channels reasonably quickly until the frontend exits, or I hit my other issue shown below.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. Live TV exits with the message "Error was encountered while displaying video", but the frontend doesn't crash.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Test environment</div><div><div> * Ubuntu 8.10 32bit</div><div> * NVidia VDPAU 185.18.14</div><div> * mythtv - 1:0.21.0+fixes-20649-openglvdpau-debug-0ubuntu2</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_error/gdb.txt">http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_error/gdb.txt</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_error/myth.log">http://www.mythtv.co.nz/shared/vdpau/channel_error/myth.log</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>For this problem the gdb.txt is probably less useful as it was generated while the error message was on screen. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I've also reproduced both of these problems under Ububtu 9.04 32bit, but I wasn't running a debug enabled build at the time</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a feeling that both of these issues are down to error handling when the reception picks up a set of bad frames that the H.264 decoder struggles to handle.</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Yves - I'd really appreciate your input and guidance on these problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>