[mythtv-users] Help with playback issue on recordings from a single channel

[Barry Martin]

Vincent:

> I've been living with and frustrated by a problem with recordings from
> my local CBS broadcast channel.
>
> It all started when my local station added a new digital sub-channel.
>   I know this because my problem started on March 1st and a call to the
> station engineer confirmed changes were made to the broadcast signal
> early that Sunday morning. He says, "Everything in this encoding scheme
> is industry standard, so I wouldn't expect there to be any problem
> decoding it with commercial equipment." I'm not technical enough to
> determine what has changed that would give mythtv so much trouble.

It appears the CBS network does a few things differently from other 
networks.  Not necessarily wrong, just different.  With the local CBS 
channel and watching via television (not via MythTV) if the Closed 
Captioning is set for one of the settings other than CC1 (I've forgotten 
which one) a big black box will overlay most of the screen.  This does 
not occur with any of the other networks/stations (I tested for 'fun').

Not really of any specific help but I'm wondering if perhaps you have a 
Closed Captioning option set?  The overlay does not appear on all CBS 
programmes.

Also, IIRC VDPAU is for nVidia video cards -- so check correct and 
up-to-date.  Also found this old note which could explain your VDPAU issues:

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    7. Re: HD Hiomerun works better in HDHomeRun viewer than MythTV (Don
    Brett)


    Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD Hiomerun works better in HDHomeRun
    viewer than MythTV

    From: Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net>

    Date: 1/25/19, 11:17


    There is a bug with VDPAU rendering. Certain channels in the USA are
    using MPEG2 in a way that overloads VDPAU and causes pixellation
    every few seconds. This is nothing to do with HDHomerun, it happens
    with any type of equipment. The solution is to change to software
    decode and OpenGL Rendering for mpeg2 streams. If you are not using
    VDPAU ignore this email.
    Peter




    Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD Hiomerun works better in HDHomeRun
    viewer than MythTV

    From: Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com>

    Date: 1/25/19, 11:48


    I suggest change your profile to one of the OpenGL ones (try OpenGL
    Slim) instead of "VDPAU High quality". If that solves your problem
    you can customize a profile that uses OpenGL for mpeg2 and OpenGL
    for others, or you can just leave it using OpenGL Slim.



    *Mythfrontend > Setup > Video > Playback (3/8): *



    Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD Hiomerun works better in HDHomeRun
    viewer than MythTV

    From: Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net>

    Date: 1/25/19, 14:24


    Just tried it, but when I played an existing recording, the audio
    played and mythfrontend exited to the desktop...audio continued to
    play until I rebooted.  Is there a library I need to install?



    Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD Hiomerun works better in HDHomeRun
    viewer than MythTV

    From: Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com>

    Date: 1/25/19, 14:41


    Make sure that the Theme Painter is set to opengl2 in
    Settings->Appearance. If that does not work you may have a broken
    opengl system.

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Barry






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