H.264 frame skips when fading to black

[Alexsource]

Hey, since I last posted in the froums, my old duron@892 Mhz went to my sister and my main box is faster, so i went and downloaded a few mHD files.

With one (an mkv of about 832*something res), i got a strange frame skipping issue during the intro, black background, red letters. When the text dades to black, a few frames are skipped. Also whn a character goes under a bridge and the scene fades to black because of the light changes, it skipps some frames.

It seems not related to viewtopic.php?f=14&t=59354&p=199190 .
Vlc 1.0 rc1 DOES use more cpu on the 2 h.264 files i tested, but when the frame skipping occurs on this one the cpu usage drops quite a bit (eg: it's close to 33% and on the frameskipping it drops to about 11%).

An old mplayer svn trough mplayerui did not have this issue, but the quality of the video was by far superior on vlc.

This happens with 0.9.8a, 0.9.9 and 1.0 rc1 as far as i know. Disabling the loop filters did not seem to fix the problem. Since that often allows people with older procesors watch full hd video, i really don't understand what may be going on. Any pointers will be apreciated.

I'll post more details about the file when I get home.

My specs:
pentium 4 2.40 GHZ
512 MB ram
Windows XP sp3
Zogis Nvidia Geforce 5500 fx based video card

[Alexsource]

Hey, I came back with some info on the file (all taken with vlc 1.0 rc1).

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Total 1.277 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.277 ms) main debug: thread (decoder) created at priority 0 (../.././src/input/decoder.c:315) main debug: thread started main debug: `xxxxxxxxxxxxx.mkv' successfully opened main error: Invalid PCR value in ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR ! main error: Invalid PCR value in ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR ! main debug: Buffering 0% faad warning: decoded zero sample faad debug: AAC SBR (channels: 6, samplerate: 48000) main debug: reusing aout main debug: looking for audio output module: 3 candidates aout_directx debug: OpenAudio aout_directx debug: found device: Controlador primario de sonido aout_directx debug: found device: C-Media Wave Device main debug: Stream buffering done (342 ms in 15 ms) aout_directx debug: device supports 5.1 channels aout_directx debug: device supports 4 channels aout_directx debug: device supports 2 channels aout_directx debug: device supports 1 channel aout_directx debug: Windows says your SpeakerConfig is Quad aout_directx debug: creating DirectSoundThread main debug: thread started aout_directx debug: DirectSoundThread ready main debug: thread (DirectSound Notification Thread) created at priority 15 (../../.././modules/audio_output/directx.c:427) main debug: using audio output module "aout_directx" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 214.596 ms - 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Total 1.480 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.480 ms) main debug: filter(s) 'fl32'->'fl32' 48000 Hz->48000 Hz 3F2R/LFE->2F2R main debug: looking for audio filter module: 24 candidates main debug: using audio filter module "simple_channel_mixer" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.334 ms - Total 0.334 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.334 ms) main debug: found a filter for the whole conversion main debug: filter(s) 'fl32'->'fl32' 52800 Hz->48000 Hz 2F2R->2F2R main debug: looking for audio filter module: 24 candidates main debug: using audio filter module "bandlimited_resampler" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.635 ms - Total 0.635 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.635 ms) main debug: found a filter for the whole conversion main debug: End of audio preroll main debug: Decoder buffering done in 220 ms main debug: no usable vout present, spawning one main debug: looking for text renderer module: 2 candidates main debug: thread (fontlist builder) created at priority 0 (../../.././modules/misc/freetype.c:473) freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 3.701 ms - 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Hope this helps...

[VLC_help]

Could you share us the problematic file or small sample from it?

[Alexsource]

Sure, i'll try to cut a sample when I get home. Hopefully avidemux can deal with the files and i won't have to hunt for another app

[Alexsource]

Here it is, uploaded to rapidshare (no password):

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http://rapidshare.com/files/238357808/fade_to_black_sample.rar.html

MKV Merge gui was able to do the job .

[VLC_help]

main warning: late picture skipped (4000 > -4047)
main warning: late picture skipped (39000 > -4001)
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main warning: late picture skipped (39000 > -3750)
main warning: late picture skipped (2000 > -3812)
main warning: late picture skipped (419000 > -2521)
main warning: late picture skipped (378000 > -2521)
main warning: late picture skipped (340000 > -2890)
main warning: late picture skipped (304000 > -2890)
main warning: late picture skipped (268000 > -2890)

I get lots of messages like that when problem shows up. I assume it is some sort of decoder issue that hopefully gets solved during next libavcodec update.

[Alexsource]

Ok.
When do you think it'll happen? 1.0 final?

Just to be sure i installed the latest "mplayer for windows" package from mulder's page (dated 5/18/2009), and it also plays those parts fine.

[Lotesdelere]

Yep, there are still problems with some H264 videos.

These troubles are known and reported:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2671
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2670

It seems that there might be many things involved (CPU usage, filters, splitters, slices, files with many ref frames and/or B frames) so let's give the devs some time to cure them and hopefully it will be fixed for v1.0.0 release

[Alexsource]

Damn.... Well, I'll just wait then. I don't have that many h.264 videos yet.

[Alexsource]

Just to keep you guys posted, It seems to still happen with 1.0.5, but it's noticebly not as much as before. So, we have an improvement. Yes, still happens when disabling loop filters.
If anyone wants it, I still have the sample I'd cut lying around and can re-upload it.