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