[mythtv-users] chirping in recordings with pchdtv hd-3000's and 0.21

[Tom Dexter]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>  I occasionally get corruption in my recordings (for example due to OTA
>  interference in bad weather)..the kind that causes temporary video
>  pixelation etc.
>
>  Under 0.20.2 it seemed that, if anything, these would cause slight
>  audio dropouts, and only rarely seemed to cause any significant audio
>  noise.  For some reason under 0.21 virtually any corruption like this
>  seems to cause full-scale audio chirps almost without fail.
>
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>  Tom
>

It appears that between 0.20.2 and 0.21 libs/libavcodec/ac3dec.c (part
of ffmpeg) was radically re-written.  As a matter of fact it's about
six times as long now.

I'll bet that's why it's handling things differently.

Tom