[mythtv-users] Leanfront renderer error

[James Abernathy]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 11:44 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 9/23/20 11:02 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> > I'm running Android Leanfront V0-198 and I was watching a program that
> > was recorded from a secondary stream of one of the major local
> > broadcasters. The channel is 5.3 and the program was originally 16:9
> > HD but on reruns on 5.3 is reduced letterbox where I use the zoom to
> > 133% to make it full screen on a 16.9 TV.
> >
> > I've been viewing this and other programs from this channel for weeks
> > and today I had a failure message on the screen. I've attached a jpg
> > screenshot of it but the text is:
> >
> > Playback Failed.
> >
> > Error Occurred in a Renerer.
> >
> > FfmpegAudioRenderer error, index=2,format=Format (1/84,
> >
> > null,null,audio/ac3,null, -1, en[-1.-1.-1.0],[2,48000]),
> >
> > format_supported=YES
> >
> > Exit   Continue
> >
> > I could not get Leanfront to advance past the error, so I assumed it
> > was the file so I tried to play it at the point of failure on
> > mythfrontend for android and it worked fine.  I went back to leanfront
> > and forced it to stop with Settings and then tried to play it from the
> > start and got the same error.
> >
> > I restarted the Shield TV and it work fine the next time with
> > leanfront.  This appears to be a one time error that left something
> > cached that it couldn't push thru and the restart of the Shield TV fixed.
> >
> > The capture card is a Hauppauge WInTV quadHD and the signal is
> > generally 100% so I don't think it was a signal problem. I didn't see
> > any anomalies when I played it on mythfrontend.
> >
> > If I can find something that is repeatable, I'll run some logging with
> > adb.
> >
> > Jim A
> >
> >
> As it so happens, I made a change last Friday to handle this type of
> audio error. I have now posted the latest release with this change
> (leanfront-v0-199-g90b99cf)
>
> The change will try to switch to another audio track when this happens.
> If none is available it will disable audio, so the video will go silent.
> You can try to reactivate audio by using the audio track (icon of an
> ear) in the player.
>
> Peter
>

Great. I now have v0-199 installed.
It seems to be working fine

Jim A
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