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

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 15:16:46 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Matt S. <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:09 PM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 16:55 -0500, Matt S. wrote:
>> > You mentioned this is from some HD-PVR recordings, correct?  See this
>> > ticket I submitted, I get the same symptoms in 0.27, but they played
>> > back fine in 0.26  I get them in some recordings made with 0.26 and
>> > 0.27.  If I had to guess it only impacts about 5% of my recordings and
>> > is very sporadic.  I think it does have to do with some minor
>> > corruption that mythtv (ffmpeg) could handle just fine in 0.26, but
>> > 0.27 isn't has flexible in dealing with it.  Other players play back
>> > the content just fine.
>> >
>> > http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11886
>> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:24 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
>>
>> skd5aner
>> Can you provide a sample recording (with beginning unadulterated) for
>> that ticket? First 60-100MB would be good.
>>
>> Steve
>> Does starting frontend with  "-O FFMPEGTS=1" fix the problem ?
>
> I probably could provide it, but as I mentioned in the ticket, I tried to
> take the first 20MB of the recording and imported it back in to mythvideo
> and it played back just fine.  However, if I transfer the whole recording in
> to mythvideo, it exhibits the same behavior.
>
> I am happy, however, to provide whatever I can to help a dev troubleshoot.
> Let me know where I can put the sample, it's too big for trac.
>
> Thanks!

I'll try -O FFMPEGTS=1
it does seem to only happen on the hdpvr recordings, the HDHR I don't
think has had the issue (yet?)

I could also make one of the recordings available to a dev to download
in it's entirety if that would help.

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Steve
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