[mythtvnz] Trying to get HD going on a Hauppauge PVR-1200

[Steven Ellis]

On Sat, November 29, 2008 1:17 pm, Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just installed this card and have the drivers installed ok,
> including
> the firmware, but although the streams tuned in ok, I am having trouble
> playing the streams in Mythtv. I managed to play a stream for a few
> seconds,
> but then I get a segfault in mythfrontend. The error is below. It seems
> there is an issue with h.264 decoding.
>
> For graphics I am using an ASUS PQ5-EM motherboard with integrated g45
> graphics. I am using a 2.6.17-7 kernel.
>
> Can anyone suggest how to debug this? ... or is the h.264 support still
> flakey for g45?
>
> Thanks
>
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>
> I am getting the following error on Mythfrontend:
>
> 2008-11-29 11:50:54.759 [h264 @ 0x7f55f9e5ae90]number of reference frames
> exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
> 2008-11-29 11:50:54.759 [h264 @ 0x7f55f9e5ae90]number of reference frames
> exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
> 2008-11-29 11:50:54.759 [h264 @ 0x7f55f9e5ae90]number of reference frames
> exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
> 2008-11-29 11:50:54.777 [h264 @ 0x7f55f9e5ae90]mmco: unref short failure
> 2008-11-29 11:50:54.805 [h264 @ 0x7f55f9e5ae90]mmco: unref short failure
> 2008-11-29 11:50:54.877 [h264 @ 0x7f55f9e5ae90]mmco: unref short failure
> 2008-11-29 11:50:57.281 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
> 2008-11-29 11:50:57.364 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
> 2008-11-29 11:50:57.381 NVP: prebuffering pause
> Segmentation fault

So which distro and build of MythTV are you using, and do you have Pauls
patches for freeview|HD?

Steve


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