My Front end only machine suffered a hard drive crash so I did a fresh install with 6.04 ( I was running 6.03 or maybe 6.02 - don't remember). I also updated my backend machine (which is a backend / frontend combo machine) to 6.04 with pacman.
I'm getting stutter (video and audio) when playing back certain video files (DVD rips transcoded stored in storage groups on backend machine) . This is new behavior since the switch to 6.04.
Here's some frontend log entries from play back of a video file:
Code:
2011-05-20 14:29:05.574 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingVideo
2011-05-20 14:29:26.145 AFD Warning: ScanATSCCaptionStreams() called with no PMT
2011-05-20 14:29:26.146 AFD: Opened codec 0xb3cee40, id(H264) type(Video)
2011-05-20 14:29:26.146 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
2011-05-20 14:29:26.150 AFD: Opened codec 0xb3cf3f0, id(AAC) type(Audio)
2011-05-20 14:29:26.150 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
2011-05-20 14:29:26.151 AFD: Opened codec 0xb3cfbe0, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2011-05-20 14:29:26.151 AFD Error: Could not find decoder for codec (Unknown Codec ID), ignoring.
2011-05-20 14:29:26.364 AO: Opening audio device '/dev/dsp0' ch 2(2) sr 48000 sf signed 16 bit reenc 0
2011-05-20 14:29:26.366 AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
2011-05-20 14:29:26.460 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video Texture'
2011-05-20 14:29:26.510 AFD: No DTS Seeking Hack!
2011-05-20 14:29:26.513 OSD: Base theme size: 800x600
2011-05-20 14:29:26.513 OSD: Scaling factors: 0.88x0.613333
2011-05-20 14:29:26.601 OSD: Base theme size: 800x600
2011-05-20 14:29:26.601 OSD: Scaling factors: 0.88x0.613333
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
2011-05-20 14:29:26.609 Player(9): Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2011-05-20 14:29:26.610 TV: Changing from None to WatchingVideo
2011-05-20 14:29:26.757 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:26.763 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:26.774 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:26.780 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:26.908 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers uAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:27.011 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers uAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:27.022 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers uAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:27.028 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers uAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:27.148 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers uuAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
{SNIPPED OUT A BUNCH OF THE SAME LINES }
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUuuuuAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:50.953 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUuuuuAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:50.958 Player(9): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUuuuuAAAAAA
2011-05-20 14:29:51.109 AFD: GetCurrentChapter(selected chapter 3 framenum 19486)
2011-05-20 14:29:51.117 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingVideo to None
2011-05-20 14:29:51.665 TV: Changing from WatchingVideo to None
File info:
Code:
mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify The\ 13th\ Warrior.m4v
MPlayer SVN-r29134-snapshot-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
137 audio & 296 video codecs
Playing The 13th Warrior.m4v.
Cache fill: 15.08% (20013056 bytes)
libavformat file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
ID_AUDIO_ID=2
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 2
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
[lavf] Subtitle stream found, -sid 0
VIDEO: [avc1] 704x368 24bpp 59.940 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=The 13th Warrior.m4v
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=704
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=368
ID_VIDEO_FPS=59.940
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.2962
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=255
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=6161.17
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
Starting playback...
Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF
Machine specs:
Code:
Memory:
Mem: 2073220k total, 263264k used, 1809956k free, 10396k buffers
Swap: 2072376k total, 0k used, 2072376k free, 134136k cached
CPU:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Audio/Video:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
Modules loaded:
lsmod
Module Size Used by
oss_usb 111244 0
oss_ich 21360 0
osscore 537876 2 oss_usb,oss_ich
ipv6 260084 22
joydev 11712 0
usbhid 36640 0
hid 40704 1 usbhid
lirc_mod_mce 17156 1
lirc_dev 13492 1 lirc_mod_mce
ppdev 9348 0
lp 11108 0
ppp_generic 25116 0
slhc 7552 1 ppp_generic
pcspkr 4352 0
psmouse 55828 0
e1000 121540 0
parport_pc 37700 1
parport 33004 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
nvidia 4707252 26
serio_raw 7172 0
i2c_i801 10896 0
i2c_core 22804 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
sg 26804 0
uhci_hcd 24592 0
iTCO_wdt 12836 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4996 1 iTCO_wdt
ehci_hcd 36876 0
intel_agp 27836 1
shpchp 34068 0
pci_hotplug 28064 1 shpchp
usbcore 136848 6 oss_usb,usbhid,lirc_mod_mce,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
agpgart 31572 2 nvidia,intel_agp
dcdbas 9120 0
evdev 11296 6
thermal 17180 0
processor 41388 1 thermal
fan 6276 0
button 7824 0
battery 12036 0
ac 6020 0
rtc_cmos 12332 0
rtc_core 17564 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 4480 1 rtc_core
ext3 127112 2
jbd 46996 1 ext3
mbcache 8708 1 ext3
sr_mod 16708 0
sd_mod 26904 4
cdrom 35360 1 sr_mod
ata_piix 23300 3
pata_acpi 6016 0
libata 158112 2 ata_piix,pata_acpi
scsi_mod 102164 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
Can't seem to figure out what changed to make the frontend stutter so much!