Here's an update on this for those interested in H264 and VDR. I brought up the problems with Spatial Direct Mode and FFMPEG on their mailing list and Loren has implemented it within the code. When tuning to one of the affected channels I no longer get messages saying that spatial direct is not implemented, but I still get extreme artifacting, dropped frames and problems with xine: - video_out: throwing away image with pts 1124374 because it's too old (diff : 31864). buffer usage: 1689, 0, 0, 0, 0x9639a0 buffer usage: 1689, 0, 1, 0, 0x9639a0 ffmpeg_video_dec: error decompressing frame ffmpeg_video_dec: error decompressing frame buffer usage: 1669, 0, 1, 0, 0x9639a0 ffmpeg_video_dec: error decompressing frame buffer usage: 1662, 0, 1, 0, 0x9639a0 ffmpeg_video_dec: error decompressing frame buffer usage: 1647, 0, 1, 0, 0x9639a0 video_out: throwing away image with pts 1126698 because it's too old (diff : 33319). buffer usage: 1714, 0, 0, 0, 0x9639a0 buffer usage: 1675, 0, 0, 0, 0x9639a0 buffer usage: 1675, 0, 1, 0, 0x9639a0 video_out: throwing away image with pts 1138960 because it's too old (diff : 25556). Hopefully, we can continue the interest and get these issues fixed. Reinhard, do you have any idea why this might be occuring? I can upload some samples somewhere if required. Thanks _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr