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I have been using XBMC for a few years now and I am loving it. But I have one Tv show that doesn't play properly. The video shudders and jumps around a little bit but the audio is fine. I have got it to play on XBMC on my xbox by switching the playback method from MPlayer to the built in ffmpeg based dvd player. But I see no option like that in the Linux version. The PC is running XBMC 10.1 and Ubuntu 10.10 and is streaming the media via samba from a Ubuntu 11.04 PC. Here is the log file:

10:34:46 T:3055736704 M:521719808 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://192.168.2.50/tv shows/Spaced/Spaced - Season 1/Spaced 01x01.avi
10:34:46 T:3055736704 M:521719808 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:34:46 T:2837969776 M:521719808 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
10:34:50 T:2837969776 M:516866048 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:492208128 NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:492208128 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 13
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:491954176 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-4 part 2
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:491954176 NOTICE: Creating video thread
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:491954176 NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:491954176 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86017
10:34:53 T:2837969776 M:491954176 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
10:34:53 T:2829577072 M:491819008 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
10:34:53 T:2806516592 M:491819008 NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio:rocess()
10:34:53 T:2806516592 M:491778048 NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86017, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through
10:34:53 T:2829577072 M:491778048 NOTICE: fps: 25.000000, pwidth: 700, pheight: 400, dwidth: 700, dheight: 400
10:34:53 T:2829577072 M:491778048 NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 1024x768 @ 50.00 - Full Screen (12)
10:34:55 T:3055736704 M:485126144 NOTICE: Using GL_TEXTURE_2D
10:34:55 T:3055736704 M:485126144 NOTICE: GL: ARB shaders support detected
10:34:55 T:3055736704 M:485126144 NOTICE: GL: Selecting Single Pass ARB YUV2RGB shader
10:34:55 T:3055736704 M:485126144 NOTICE: GL: No vertex shader, fixed pipeline in use
10:34:55 T:3055736704 M:485126144 NOTICE: GL: NPOT texture support detected
10:34:55 T:3055736704 M:485126144 NOTICE: GL: Using GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
10:35:01 T:2806516592 M:504270848 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
10:35:02 T:2829577072 M:504549376 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
10:35:02 T:2829577072 M:504549376 WARNING: CRenderManager::FlipPage - timeout waiting for flip to complete
10:35:02 T:2837969776 M:504418304 WARNING: CDVDPlayer::CheckPlayerInit(1) - Ignoring too large delay of 12000700.000000
10:35:02 T:2806516592 M:504954880 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
10:35:04 T:2829577072 M:510910464 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
10:35:04 T:2829577072 M:510910464 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
10:35:16 T:3055736704 M:556990464 WARNING: Previous line repeats 7 times.
10:35:16 T:3055736704 M:556990464 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
10:35:16 T:3055736704 M:556990464 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556990464 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556990464 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: closing audio stream
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556990464 NOTICE: Closing audio stream
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556990464 NOTICE: Waiting for audio thread to exit
10:35:16 T:2806516592 M:556990464 ERROR: AddPackets - failed to add leftover bytes to render
10:35:16 T:2806516592 M:556990464 NOTICE: thread end: CDVDPlayerAudio::OnExit()
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556990464 NOTICE: Closing audio device
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556949504 NOTICE: Deleting audio codec
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556949504 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: closing video stream
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556949504 NOTICE: Closing video stream
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556949504 NOTICE: waiting for video thread to exit
10:35:16 T:2829577072 M:556986368 NOTICE: thread end: video_thread
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556986368 NOTICE: deleting video codec
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:556986368 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting demuxer
10:35:16 T:2837969776 M:559407104 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:559403008 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:560431104 WARNING: Trying to add unsupported control type 3
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:560427008 WARNING: Previous line repeats 4 times.
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:560427008 WARNING: GetLabel - Unknown nodetype requested 12
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:537149440 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:537149440 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:537149440 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
10:35:18 T:3055736704 M:537149440 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
10:35:20 T:3055736704 M:541650944 WARNING: GetLabel - Unknown nodetype requested 11
10:36:52 T:3055736704 M:559198208 NOTICE: Samba is idle. Closing the remaining connections

Any suggestions? Any help will be very appreciated. Thanks.

Please turn on debug logging and post the full log on pastebin.

Thanks for the reply! And done.

http://pastebin.com/8RmDzm7e

I looked through the log file. I really don't understand what most of it means but to me the interesting stuff is looks like its here:

11:14:19 T:2855267184 M:542461952 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:5251532.689839, should be:5241278.158122, error:-10254.531716
11:14:25 T:2863659888 M:542498816 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
11:14:26 T:2863659888 M:542478336 INFO: CDVDPlayerVideo - Stillframe detected, switching to forced 25.000000 fps
11:14:26 T:2863659888 M:542478336 DEBUG: CPullupCorrection: pattern lost
11:14:26 T:2863659888 M:542531584 INFO: CDVDPlayerVideo - Stillframe left, switching to normal playback

Its does that repeatedly until I stop the playback. It plays fine in VLC and Totem Movie Player.

Could be a poorly muxed file, the audio and video packets are too far apart so the video and audio queues run empty.

Any way to fix that? Also if that is so I'm curious as to why other media players seem to play it fine :/