2012-11-28, 19:16
Hi,
I've been using Openelec 2.0 on an ASRock Ion 330 with TVHeadend backend. With standard definition channels all is well but as soon as I try to watch HD content from the backend it starts freezing and stuttering and is unwatchable. This is the same for live and for recorded HD content. The content plays fine if viewed with VLC so the problem doesn't seem to be the backend.
I've turned on debug logging and I get lots of errors like this:
ERROR: ffmpeg[E8C]: [h264] Failed to begin frame
ERROR: ffmpeg[E8C]: [h264] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture
I tried it on my desktop machine running Windows and XBMC 11 which has a much more powerful graphics card and had the same issue. However, if I turned off hardware accelerated decoding the content played smoothly. Naturally, I can't do this on the ASRock HTPC as the dual-core Atom isn't up to software decoding!
Is there an issue with the hardware decoding of HD content on UK Terrestrial TV? I notice it's broadcast in 1080i if that's the issue.
What can I do to get HDTV working?
Thanks,
James
I've been using Openelec 2.0 on an ASRock Ion 330 with TVHeadend backend. With standard definition channels all is well but as soon as I try to watch HD content from the backend it starts freezing and stuttering and is unwatchable. This is the same for live and for recorded HD content. The content plays fine if viewed with VLC so the problem doesn't seem to be the backend.
I've turned on debug logging and I get lots of errors like this:
ERROR: ffmpeg[E8C]: [h264] Failed to begin frame
ERROR: ffmpeg[E8C]: [h264] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture
I tried it on my desktop machine running Windows and XBMC 11 which has a much more powerful graphics card and had the same issue. However, if I turned off hardware accelerated decoding the content played smoothly. Naturally, I can't do this on the ASRock HTPC as the dual-core Atom isn't up to software decoding!
Is there an issue with the hardware decoding of HD content on UK Terrestrial TV? I notice it's broadcast in 1080i if that's the issue.
What can I do to get HDTV working?
Thanks,
James