[MPlayer-users] Bug 2 of 2: -framedrop gives lots of error messages with h264 - Mac OS X 10.3.9

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:46:07PM -0400, Ergzay wrote:
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> On 2006/03/21, at 0:49, Ergzay wrote:
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> >This is bug 2 of 2. These bugs have been around for as long as I can 
> >remember and because they weren't getting fixed I thought I might 
> >report them. I am using gcc 3.3. I am on mac os x 10.3.9. I am using 
> >the cvs version of mplayer.
> >When I use the standard -framedrop with h264 files it will put out 
> >this type of line repeatedly, which I'm guessing is whenever it skips 
> >a frame. This causes mplayer to lag further and drop more frames. If 
> >you get to a sufficiently complex movement scene mplayer will 
> >continuously drop frames for several seconds getting no movement. ex:
> >Error while decoding frame!94 ct:  4.545 1327/1327 82% 18%  4.8% 1058 0
> >Error while decoding frame!43 ct:  4.549 1328/1328 82% 18%  4.8% 1059 0
> >Error while decoding frame!31 ct:  4.574 1334/1334 82% 18%  4.8% 1065 0
> >Error while decoding frame!02 ct:  4.579 1335/1335 82% 18%  4.8% 1066 0
> >Error while decoding frame!09 ct:  4.604 1341/1341 82% 18%  4.8% 1072 0
> >If I instead use -hardframedrop the problem disappears and it 
> >functions as if -framedrop was used with an xvid file.
> 
> Is anyone going to respond?

It's a known problem. I believe the bug is in libavcodec.

Rich