[mythtv-users] 0.27 Some recordings immediately show end of recording dialog box

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Wed Nov 20 18:02:50 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>wrote:

> On the system I built for my parents, some recordings have been having
> the issue where immediately upon playing the recording the dialog box
> that appears at the end of the recording shows immediately. the
> recording file size is appropriate (multiple GB), a screen grab for
> the recordings screen is shown, and an image appears at playback.
>
> Has anyone seen this before? I'm not seeing anything "remarkable" in
> the frontend logs
>
> There's a good chance that there is some corruption at the beginning of
these recordings that is breaking normal playback.  Note that preview
generation jumps to some point in the middle before starting the "playback"
from which it captures a frame.

Try using mythutil to force skipping of the first few seconds (first 100
frames in this example):

    mythutil --chanid <chanid> --starttime <starttime> --setcutlist 1-100

If this works, then it could be that your channel changing script needs to
sleep a little longer to wait for the input signal to stabilize.  I assume
these recordings are from an HDPVR.

Jim
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