Re: [xine-devel] xine-lib: make shm create_ximage more "fault tolerant"

[Reinhard N. <rn...@gm...>]

Hi,

Thibaut Mattern wrote:

>> Note: I've enabled direct rendering for H264 (see my email with subject
>> xine-lib/src/libffmpeg/video_decoder.c: why has direct rendering been
>> disabled for CODEC_ID_H264?). Otherwise I've never got a frame size
>> other than 0x0.
> 
> Direct rendering has been disabled because there is too many reference
> frames (causing a deadlock), it's the easiest fix, but at least it
> works. See the several complaints on the ML about xine and H264.
> Other players have also disabled direct rendering with H264.

Hhm, I didn't see this issue with all the DVB-S2 streams I've tested so far.

But there is a general issue in FFmpeg which let's ffplay and mplayer
run out of buffers, too, but I didn't get any help on this so far on the
FFmpeg ML.

Bye.
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