core video output: picture is too late to be displayed

[Fradow]

Hello,

I have some problems when trying to read a video on a Nexus 5: the video freezes after a few seconds and there is only sound (the video otherwise works well on other devices). When it starts to do that, Logcat shows :

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core video output: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 247 ms)

The missing ms varies from about 50 to 1000.

Do someone know what can causes that, and how to solve it ?

I run LibVLC along with cocos2d-x (a C++ game-engine which uses OpenGL), which obviously use a bit of GPU, could that have a relation ?

Thanks,

[flx42]

Can you share a sample of the video?

Are you using HW acceleration?

[Fradow]

Hello,

I checked at the start-up, the Hardware acceleration is at 2 (a comment says : // Automatic mode: activate MediaCodec opaque direct rendering for 4.3 and above.), which seems correct since it's a device on Android 4.4.

I have code in case Hardware acceleration fails, but on this particular device, this code is not reached (I checked with breakpoints and a log)

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public void handleMessage(Message msg) { int event = msg.getData().getInt("event", -1); if(event == EventHandler.HardwareAccelerationError) { Log.i(TAG, "Hardware Acceleration Error, disabling hardware acceleration"); try { LibVLC vlc = LibVlcUtil.getLibVlcInstance(); vlc.setHardwareAcceleration(0); vlc.playIndex(0); } catch (LibVlcException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }

Here is the full video I am using (25Mb) : http://we.tl/FpvFVVpcBJ

Thanks for your help.

[flx42]

Looks fine on my Nexus 5.
Could you try with the VLC app? Use a nightly build such as this one: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/and ... 2-0108.apk

[Fradow]

Thanks for the help flx42.

I just updated LibVLC to the latest version, and now everything works fine. That was probably a bug in the older version I was using up until now.