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

Corey Hickey bugfood-ml at fatooh.org
Mon Apr 3 07:07:08 CEST 2006


Ergzay wrote:
>>>> 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.
> 
> Should I go post this on ffmpeg-devel?

If that is the case, then, yes, post to ffmpeg-devel. It's actually 
pretty easy to reproduce on i386 and amd64.

1. Find a big Apple h.264 trailer.
2. $ bzip2 < /dev/urandom > /dev/null
3. Switch to another terminal.
4. $ nice -n 19 mplayer -framedrop -vo null some_big_file.mov

-Corey




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