hi,
since I updated from vdr-1.7.11, there is some change in the way H.264
is treated:
With 1.7.11 + xine with vdpau support, I can watch H.264 "HDTV" shows
without problems. Occasionally, there is a small glitch.
But with 1.7.14 + the same version of xine, H.264 (both SDTV and HDTV)
fail. Syslog reports:
Mar 27 13:20:22 vdr vdr: [24138] receiver on device 1 thread started
(pid=20841, tid=24138)
Mar 27 13:20:22 vdr vdr: [24139] TS buffer on device 1 thread started
(pid=20841, tid=24139)
Mar 27 13:20:22 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:22 vdr vdr: [24138] SetBrokenLink: no GOP header found in
video packet
Mar 27 13:20:23 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:24 vdr vdr: [24138] SetBrokenLink: no GOP header found in
video packet
Mar 27 13:20:25 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:25 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:25 vdr vdr: [24138] SetBrokenLink: no GOP header found in
video packet
Mar 27 13:20:25 vdr vdr: [26422] femon receiver thread started
(pid=20841, tid=26422)
Mar 27 13:20:25 vdr vdr: [26524] femon osd thread started (pid=20841,
tid=26524)
Mar 27 13:20:25 vdr vdr: [24138] ERROR: 1 ring buffer overflow (45 bytes
dropped)
Mar 27 13:20:26 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:27 vdr vdr: [24138] SetBrokenLink: no GOP header found in
video packet
Mar 27 13:20:30 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:30 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:31 vdr vdr: [24138] SetBrokenLink: no GOP header found in
video packet
Mar 27 13:20:32 vdr vdr: [24138] cVideoRepacker: operating in H.264 mode
Mar 27 13:20:32 vdr vdr: [24138] ERROR: 3 ring buffer overflows (135
bytes dropped)
The picture has big distortions, and typically xine hangs at some point.
With traditional Mpeg-streams, there is no problem watching with 1.7.14.
yours,
Jouni