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color="#007777">></font></font></font>On 9/8/2014 6:06
PM, Mike Perkins wrote: <br>
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08/09/14 18:39, Rob Owens wrote: <br>
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Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:51:27PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>>>> On
09/08/2014 12:26 PM, Rob Owens wrote: <br>
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I've been having a problem with mythcommflag not working. <br>
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Upgrading to 0.27.3 did not fix it. I'm seeing tons of these <br>
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messages in mythcommflag.log: <br>
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mythcommflag[888]: E Decoder avformatdecoder.cpp:4891 <br>
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(GetFrame) decoding error eno: Unknown error 541478725 <br>
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(541478725) <br>
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Can anybody suggest further debugging steps? <br>
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Looks like corrupt recordings and/or recordings in a format
that <br>
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ffmpeg libs don't handle well--though corrupt recordings is
more <br>
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likely. Could be due to antenna misalignment/breakage (due to
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wind/wear/gravity/...) or even just changes by your
broadcaster <br>
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which require a rescan. <br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>>> The
recordings are from Dish Network. Most (all?) are high <br>
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definition, but I'm using a PVR-150 to capture using s-video.
The <br>
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recordings play back fine. Every once in a while I have a <br>
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recording that has one commercial break detected, but misses
the <br>
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of them. <br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>>> Does
that help the diagnosis at all? Do I need to look into the <br>
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settings I'm using for capture? <br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>> If you are
using a PVR150 or variant then you are encoding the signal <br>
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face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066"><font
color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>> yourself.
The quality of the signal cannot therefore be down to <br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>> external
transmission problems, but rather within the PVR150 itself, <br>
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color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>> or later
in the signal chain - including the recording and playback <br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>> processes.
<br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>I have one more
data point to add. All my recordings are from ATSC digital
tuners, but a lot are </font></font><font color="black"
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face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>from basic cable
channels in lower resolution 480i SD. mythcommflag doesn't do a
very good job </font></font><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>on these
recordings. It's more accurate on the 1080i and 720p HD
recordings, which are from </font></font><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>local broadcast
channels. <br>
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color="#007777">></font></font></font>My memory is that
mythcommflag used to be better at flagging SD content from both
analog and </font></font><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>digital tuners.
My impression is that, as it has evolved to better support HD
content, it's ability to </font></font><font color="black"
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face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>support SD
content has degraded. <br>
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color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="#007777">></font></font></font>Helen<br>
<br>
I have basically the same problem. I had posted it on the
mythtv forums but hadn't received a response. Here's the link.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=354">https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=354</a> I have
log files of SD and HD recording in there that maybe someone
could look at. Sounds like the optimal solution would be to
have the mythcommflag from 0.24 used for SD content and the
latest mythcommflag used for HD content. <br>
<br>
Carl<br>
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