[mythtv-users] Mytharchive and non monotone timestamps

[George Mari]

On 02/27/2010 08:00 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> Can anybody help me figure out how to fix this?
>
> I am running Mythbuntu 9.10 (with reasonably recent updates, though
> not necessarily as up to date as 2/27/10).
>
> I recorded some shows OTA from the local PBS station that my wife
> would love to have on DVD so she could give them to her Jane Austen
> fan friends.  When I try to burn them to DVD, the process fails.  The
> end of mythburn.log looks like:
>
> [mpeg2video @ 0x88f6800]00 motion_type at 75 28
> [mpeg2video @ 0x88f6800]00 motion_type at 64 31
> [mpeg2video @ 0x88f6800]concealing 500 DC, 500 AC, 500 MV errors
> [NULL @ 0x88fa080]error, non monotone timestamps 167951071>= 167948191
> av_interleaved_write_frame(): Error while opening file
> ************************************************************
> ERROR: Failed while running ffmpeg to re-encode video.
> Command was ffmpeg -threads 2 -v 1 -i
> "/storage/mythtv/recordings/1021_20100124210000.mpg" -r ntsc -target
> dvd -b 4771k -s 720x480 -acodec copy -copyts -aspect 16:9
> "/var/lib/mytharchive/temp/work/1/newfile2.mpg" -map 0:0 -map 0:1
> ************************************************************
>
> It's not too surprising to me that there might be some bit errors in
> the data stream, given that I recorded it over the air from 40 miles
> outside Boston.  I've looked around and found some (rather old)
> suggestions, the most promising of which was that I should use Project
> X to process the file, as it is supposedly more robust in the presence
> of errors than ffmpeg.
>
> So I checked off the setting to use Project X, and I used aptitude to
> install project-x, but, according to the log, mythburn doesn't seem to
> be running project-x anywhere, and I've still got this problem.
>
> Can anybody give me any pointers?  I sure would appreciate it.
>

This happened to me once before, running 0.20 or 0.21, I forgot which. 
Googling at the time suggested a new version of ffmpeg was needed to 
correct the problem - but I'm only about 60% sure this was the solution. 
  I do remember the problem going away after an upgrade of one sort or 
the other - it may have been mythtv that was upgraded.

> While I'm on the subject, and have your attention anyway, can you tell
> me what to expect in terms of aspect ratio for the recorded program?
> Channel 2 broadcast the show in 16:9 format.  Will mythburn create a
> 16:9 anamorphic DVD?  The 720x480 parameter in the ffmpeg command
> doesn't look like either 16:9 or 4:3.
>

Yes - that's what the -aspect 16:9 parameter in your ffmpeg command 
above indicates.