[mythtv-users] Recording plays horribly in myth, fine in mplayer

[Ronald Frazier]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> 50mb chop of the file:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18868783/testnat2.mpg
>
> Source:  TransACT IPTV, national geographic channel.
>
> EVERY recording from this channel (and only this channel) displays
> flashing and blocking as in this clip.  I'm using the full vdpau
> profile in myth with a gt430.
>
> Myth info:
>
> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : v0.24.1-207-g5180d26
> MythTV Branch    : jyavenard/backports/fixes/0.24
> Network Protocol : 63
> Library API      : 0.24.20110505-1
> QT Version       : 4.7.2
> Options compiled in:
>  linux debug using_alsa using_oss using_pulse using_pulseoutput
> using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_dvb
> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr using_iptv
> using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_lirc using_mheg
> using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync using_qtdbus using_qtwebkit
> using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl
> using_bindings_python using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vdpau
> using_ffmpeg_threads using_live using_mheg
>
>
>
> Mplayer plays the video without issue using:
> mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau testnat2.mpg
>
> MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
>
> Any ideas?  Should I submit a bug since it's reproducable and I have a
> source file?

I don't think This is a bug in myth. Neither VLC nor Windows media
player can handle the video either. When I use either of those, they
don't even get the block video like myth does. They simply don't play
any video at all. VLC blinks 1 frame of the video, but then exits
instantly. WMP does nothing.

How did you capture this video? I'm thinking something is poorly
formatted or filtered in the mpeg stream. I was seeing similar issues
at first when working with my Ceton card, and it turned out to be a
couple of different things. One was extra packets in the stream, and
the other was an issue with the PCR packets (which is basically the
timecode info for the stream). I took a brief look at your file with
some mpeg tools and I'm not seeing either of those issues, but my
guess is there is something else odd in that stream. If I'm correct,
it's probably gonna be a pain to track down, especially if you don't
know a whole lot about the MPEG-TS spec. I spent a week learning about
it and analyzing the files before I finally figured out my issues.


-- 
Ron Frazier