Comment 9 for bug 288816

The team understands how big an impact this is on some users and installs, but to provide some background and hopefully head off a bunch of "me-too" responses, upstream already investigated this issue and unfortunately was not able to discover the source of the problem. It appears to have been fixed on the trunk by a ffmpeg resync, which is quite massive (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/18904 lists SOME, but not all, of the files impacted) and would be too disruptive to apply to the -fixes branch.

In summary, unless else someone volunteers to dig deeper into the bug and creates a patch, there aren't any resources to find and fix this on the -fixes branch. If someone could find a stand-alone player that works, a possible work-around might be to configure and use an external player (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo#External_Player_Configuration). If the player(s) installed by default don't work and you're a bit more adventuresome, you might try manually updating to the latest version of your favorite player(s).

Thank you for keeping any further replies to this bug to a technical nature (either code/patch discussions, or external player configurations that work)!