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

[John Pilkington]

John Welch wrote:
> 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.

I still have this menu problem - and good playback otherwise - in 179, 
but Axel has pointed out that the only difference between 178 and 179 is 
the enabling of OpenGL (IIRC).  But I still don't have Mplayer or xine 
working properly under CentOS.  Xine briefly displays its logo and then 
claims that it can't find a demuxer that can do it.  Not an ATrpms 
issue, though.
> 
> 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.)
>