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

[Ergzay]

On 2006/04/02, at 21:27, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:46:07PM -0400, Ergzay wrote:
>>
>> On 2006/03/21, at 0:49, Ergzay wrote:
>>
>>> 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.

Should I go post this on ffmpeg-devel?