[mythtv] Strange issues with MPEG channels on QAM

[Asher]

On 7/9/07, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 07:38 -0700, Asher wrote:
> > On 2/12/07, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 01:51 -0500, Joshua M Thompson wrote:
> > > > The problem areas seem to occur where Comcast has inserted local
> > > > advertisements in the stream. When they occur Myth seems to lose sync
> > > > with the stream. When this happens the front end spits out thousands of
> > > > lines like this:
> > > >
> > > > [mpeg2video @ 0x108ba24]get_buffer() failed (stride changed)
> > > >
> > > > Sometimes it recovers, sometimes it aborts back to the recording screen,
> > > > and on occasion it just crashes.
> > > >
>
> > I just started seeing this problem on
> > comcast as well, also around some commercial breaks.  My recordings
> > are off of a HDTV5500 card though not the HDHomeRun.  It causes the
> > frontend to crash during playback, it looks like the same errors are
> > get generated on the backend during commflagging but it doesn't cause
> > the commflag to crash.  What would be helpful for troubleshooting
> > this?
>
> If you can reproduce the crash with the latest SVN trunk,
> please create a backtrace using the instructions in the
> MythTV documentation. Then create a new ticket with the
> problem description and attach the backtrace to the ticket,
> we may a small sample of the video as well, so please don't
> delete it.
>
> -- Daniel

Yep this is all with the latest svn trunk (as well as the -vid branch)
 I will try to generate a good backtrace and open a ticket.  I've had
problems generating useful backtraces before so let me know if it is
incomplete