[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 615470] New: mpegtsdemux falling off the end of buffers/corrupting stream

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615470
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | git

           Summary: mpegtsdemux falling off the end of buffers/corrupting
                    stream
    Classification: Desktop
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-bad
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: xiphmont at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
      GNOME target: ---
     GNOME version: ---


an MPEG-TS stream consists of 188 byte chunks.  As default buffer size is 4096
bytes, the mpegtsdemux element is fed buffers containing fractional numbers of
unaligned MPEG-TS frames, which it apparently can't always cope with.  Among
the symptoms, it reports "skipping, adaptation_field consumed all data", and
drops some portion in the middle of the stream.  This badly garbles the content
it is demuxing.  Forcing, eg, the hdv1394src to hand back buffers that are
always integral multiples of 188 bytes avoids the behavior.  

Specifically the following script does not [always] work:

gst-launch \
       hdv1394src \
             ! queue \
             ! mpegtsdemux \
             ! queue \
             ! mpeg2dec \
         ! xvimagesink sync=false

The following change reliably eliminates the problem:

       hdv1394src blocksize="4136" \

Unfortunately, the incorrect behavior has some timing component.  On (eg) an
old dual core Thinkpad T61, the video reliably corrupts badly.  On a newer i7
quad-core, the problem doesn't seem to occur.

On the machine[s] where the blocksize change is needed to prevent HDV
corruption, no other HDV application (eg, dvgrab) shows any trobule, nor has
there ever been an observed failure using the forced blocksize with hdv1394src.

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