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

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 16:27:20 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

that did it!
weird that it started recently. I'll add a 1 second delay and see if
that solves it. but at least I can fix the ones that have issue
already

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Steve
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