[mythtv] master dcb64 of 15 Aug: ffprobe/mythffprobe discrepancy

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 09:20:01 UTC 2022


On 23/08/2022 21:27, John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi:  I have an h264-based video for which stream analyses by the 
> F35-system ffprobe and ffmpeg report initial errors but then give ok 
> results, while mythffprobe and mythffmpeg both crash.
> 
> I had mistimed my recording, and downloaded a replacement from the BBC 
> via get_iplayer, which would normally transcode to mpeg4, but ran out of 
> disk space, leaving the raw download instead.  So it isn't a standard 
> MythTV format; but playback in the frontend and other players seemed 
> generally ok.  I have since used the system ffmpeg to convert it into my 
> normal format.
> 
> Here are links to two 20 MB dd-clips.
> 
> dd bs=1M skip=20 count=20 if=<infile> of=<outfile>
> 
> They aren't packet-aligned or exactly equivalent.
> 
> Bad
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EidSzuf8KbMWQcPKfW3XEWCdFvIprGYc/view?usp=sharing 
> 
> 
> Good
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3UxPNY162JTMMDZ1uDC_J5wMS7nKE8P/view?usp=sharing 
> 
> 
I've tried the mythffprobe from fixes/32 on both clips.  After the 
complaints, here are the essentials.  I don't know if the differing 
stream labels might have anything to do with the problem in master.

Input #0, mpegts, from 'prom_iplay_20_20.ts':
   Duration: 00:00:30.62, start: 46.760000, bitrate: 5479 kb/s
   Stream #0:0[0x22](eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 132 kb/s
   Stream #0:1[0x21]: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709, 
progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 50 fps, 50 tbr, 90k tbn, 100 tbc
==============

Input #0, mpegts, from 'prom_ok_20_20.ts':
   Duration: 00:00:31.32, start: 37.282667, bitrate: 5357 kb/s
   Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709, 
progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 50 fps, 50 tbr, 90k tbn, 100 tbc
   Stream #0:1[0x101](eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 130 
kb/s
=============

> John P



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