A while ago, I noticed that my 6Eyes card had problems when playing back video via the card itself in Fedora 9. I put together another box, containing a Buz, a 6Eyes and a DC10+, running Fedora 9. I found out that the DC10+ shared this inability to play back video, while the Buz did not. Intrigued by this, I set out to find the reason. Step one: Find out when it stopped working. Seven kernel.org kernels were built; 2.6.18 to 2.6.24. In each and every one of them, as well as the F9 2.6.25 kernel, the DC10+ didn't work (neither did the 6Eyes), while the Buz did. 2.6.18 to 2.6.20 were tried with Fedora Core 6 instead of Fedora 9, and I used lavplay 1.8.0 and 1.9.0, both from freshrpms and compiled locally from the mjpeg-tools tar balls. The performance was consistent; DC10+ didn't work, while Buz did.
The error is this: When playing back through the card (lavplay -p C), the playback hang and fail with "[lavplay] Error syncing on a buffer: Timer expired" at frame 62 plus four less than the number of mjpeg buffers. That would normally* mean frame 66, with the default -n of 8. *Occasionally the hang will occur 41 frames later. Why 41? I don't know. The replay was done with -a 0, to avoid any audio related problems. My question to any DC10+ users out there is this: Do your cards behave in the same way, or is there something wrong with my machines? /Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
