[mythtv-users] mythffmpeg stream analysis defeated, works with ffmpeg

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 27 October 2013 09:03, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> I've just made a recording (dvb-t) that the frontend couldn't play, although
> vlc could.  It was on cbbc, and overlapped the 'end of service' time on that
> channel.  mythffmpeg could find no mpeg2video (Main) stream, even after
> increasing analyzeduration and probesize.  ffmpeg complained too, but did
> locate the video stream. After I patched mythDVBcut to use ffmpeg instead of
> mythffmeg for stream identification, it has produced a myth-compatible file.
>
> 0.27-fixes, f18 from rpmfusion and friends.  It's working well for me.

you can start mythfrontend with -O FFMPEGTS=1 or use mythffmpeg with

mythffmpeg -f mpegts-ffmpeg

which will use ffmpeg original mpegts demuxer.

Jean-Yves