[ATrpms-users] DVD Playback Issues with mythtv-0.21-179

[John Welch]

Anyone else having DVD (or other) playback issues with the latest Mythtv
packages from the atrpms-bleeding repo (0.21.179 series)?  When I start to
play a DVD the "splash screen" and accompanying audio is fine, then the
"Title Menu" looks OK.  However, once I choose a title playback goes crazy;
picture breaks up and jumps, stuttering audio, basically completely
unwatchable.  When I run 'mythfrontend' from a terminal window, and then go
back to it while trying to play the DVD I get constant errors like the
following:

2008-03-01 14:21:47.175 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 0. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.223 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 1. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.256 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 2. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.317 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 3. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.349 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 4. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.350 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2008-03-01 14:21:47.373 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 5. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.406 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 6. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.440 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame 7. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
2008-03-01 14:21:47.473 GetNextFreeFrame() served a busy frame I. Dropping.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuUUUUUUL

This is happening on a TV series DVD.  I played an episode prior to
upgrading to this latest of version of mythtv and it was fine, as it has
been all along.  Right after the upgrade I tried playing the next episode
and this is when the problems started, so in my mind it is clearly something
in the latest release causing the problem.  I also tried playing on another
frontend and had the same issues there.

I found a somewhat similar report in the Mythtv mailing lists, but that post
was referring to the 0.21-178 series, and mentioned issues with the menus
and not playback; basically the opposite of what I am seeing.

So far LiveTV and playback of recorded programs seems fine.  I use 'mplayer'
for for video playback, which is OK.  I haven't tried switching back to the
Internal player to test if the problem exists here as well.  I prefer the
Internal player for DVD playback because of the menu navigation.

(Note: just before posting this I tried a different DVD and that seemed OK.
However, there still seems to be something in this latest release that
caused the issues with this DVD series set.)
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