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

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 18:48:01 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

false positive, only worked for one recording, but the three others
I've tried the method on (including much longer initial cuts), are not
working, they all do the same thing still

-- 
Steve
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