[MPlayer-dev-eng] Terrible playback issues

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> I've updated ffmpeg yesterday (the last time was Thursday, but I cannot tell
> whether I really used this one) after my previous update around Jan, 10.
> MPlayer is alway up-to-date.
> 
> Now I'm suddenly experiencing strange playback issue, i.e. it's a little bit
> stuttering like decoding would take too long although that never was a
> problem so far and CPU usage is just around 20%.
> 
> Console output constantly says:
> 
>   [mpeg4 @ 0xb75236c0]get_buffer() failed (stride changed)
>   Error while decoding frame!
> 
> Was there a change recently that could be the reason? Maybe someone can give
> me a hint before I have to start to track it down.

I would help if you could figure out if it depends on codec, vo, etc.
The stride changed thing was added to FFmpeg recently I think and might
be an issue since we allocate frames from different kinds of memories
which might want different strides.