[mythtv-users] hls server problems

[Anthony Giggins]

On 10 August 2016 at 01:50, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 09/08/16 15:40, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 22 June 2016 at 18:35, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com
>> <mailto:perkins1724 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     >hey, recently i tried the hls streaming demo page in the backend.
>> everything seems to work fine, but the produced video files are broken.
>>
>>     Define broken?
>>     Does it look like this? https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12479
>>     <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12479>
>>
>>
>> Yep I can confirm that I'm getting this problem since upgrading....
>> using torc, myth webfrontend and the Live streaming example site,
>> previous created streams are fine and will playback but newly created
>> streams will only playback sound but video is distorted, see the linked
>> screenshot
>>
>> https://imagebin.ca/v/2qypLbHV4t4K <https://imagebin.ca/v/2qypLbHV4t4K>
>>
>>
>> the same settings used in 0.27 are not working
>> ie.Bitrate 800k
>> Width: Auto
>> Height: 480
>> Audio: 128k
>> it produces the same 864x480 res stream just unwatchable, from
>> mythwebfrontend it produces smaller res streams is this configurable
>> somewhere?
>>
>> from the mythbuntu ppa from about a week ago
>> MythTV Version : v0.28-46-ge5ce273
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
>> Network Protocol : 88
>> Library API : 0.28.20160309-1
>> QT Version : 5.2.1
>> Options compiled in:
>>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
>> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl
>> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb
>> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton
>> using_hdpvr using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto
>> using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg
>> using_opengl using_opengl_video using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit
>> using_qtscript using_qtdbus using_sdl using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11
>> using_xrandr using_xv using_profiletype using_bindings_perl
>> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_freetype2
>> using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau
>> using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>
> There was a long thread about this last year on the dev list.  Right at
> the end (30 July 2015) Warpme said:
>
> I have exactly the same HLS distortions on H264 SD channels. HD channels
> are OK.
> Reverting commit You mention fixes issue for me.
>
> There are problems with problems gossamer-threads at present and I don't
> use hls.  Does the hls problem still apply only to SD h264?
>
> John P
>
> I haven't got any H264 SD channels but it is working on H264 HD 1080p by
the looks but not on MPEG2 SD 540p or MPEG2 HD 720p (once again none of the
AUS channels are MPEG2 1080p as far as I can see)

would you mind sharing your mythtranscode binary that way I don't need to
recompile, I'm running mythbuntu 14.04, haven't made the jump to 16.04

Cheers,

Anthony
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