[mythtv-users] Two odd issues with NBC DTV recordings

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 18:37:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
>
> I missed the first message in this thread so I would have responded
> earlier.
>
> I noticed this problem for a few weeks already and finally figured it
> out the other night.  The problem is NBC is encoding its video with
> keyframes further apart than the MythTV dtvrecorder expects.
> Consequently, the dtvrecorder thinks there aren't any keyframes and
> inserts seektable entries for non-keyframes.  I'm going to check in a
> change shortly which makes the dtvrecorder be a little more patient
> waiting for keyframes.
>
> While I'm at it, is anyone experiencing audio underruns with OTA Fox
> recordings?  That's another problem I'm still working on.
>
> David
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I was curious as to whether or not the keyframe changes you referred
to ever got checked in.

If so, are they changes that could be easily back fitted to
0.21-fixes?  Unless it involves trunk code that's changed too
radically I could assist with that.

Tom


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