<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Jan 2023, at 6:46 am, Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" class="">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 1/16/23 16:48, James wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 15 Jan 2023, at 10:33 pm, Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" class="">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">There is a failure in playback, likely caused by some sort of corruption in the file. Is it a recording or a video? Does it<br class="">happen with all recordings?<br class=""></blockquote>Every other recording I have tried works perfectly<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The message does not indicate an unsupported format. If you play an unsupported format video, you get a blank screen with audio only.<br class=""><br class="">Please open an issue in github and supply a sample video. I suggest you use google drive or a similar service to upload the video and add a link to the issue. I will take a look and see what the problem is<br class=""></blockquote>I'm not sure there is an issue yet.<br class="">The recording plays fine on my other backends.<br class="">mythffprobe does no bitching<br class=""><br class="">libavutil 56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100<br class="">libavcodec 58.134.100 / 58.134.100<br class="">libavformat 58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100<br class="">libavdevice 58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100<br class="">libavfilter 7.110.100 / 7.110.100<br class="">libswscale 5. 9.100 / 5. 9.100<br class="">libswresample 3. 9.100 / 3. 9.100<br class="">libpostproc 55. 9.100 / 55. 9.100<br class="">Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/store/Movies/Myth-F/The Father.mp4':<br class="">Metadata:<br class="">major_brand : isom<br class="">minor_version : 512<br class="">compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41<br class="">encoder : Lavf58.76.100<br class="">Duration: 01:27:57.65, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2551 kb/s<br class="">Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 2287 kb/s, 49.96 fps, 50 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc (default)<br class="">Metadata:<br class="">handler_name : VideoHandler<br class="">vendor_id : [0][0][0][0]<br class="">Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: mp3 (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 255 kb/s (default)<br class="">Metadata:<br class="">handler_name : SoundHandler<br class="">vendor_id : [0][0][0][0]<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">. You can also try the suggestions in the documentation to reformat the file using ffmpeg or mkvmerge. See the section "Problems" in <a href="https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront#readme" class="">https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront#readme</a>. The reformat is very quick and does not re-encode the video.<br class=""></blockquote>I recovered the recording (undelete)<br class=""><br class="">mkvmerge won't work with mk4 files<br class="">the ffmpeg works, complains, and wont play-back<br class=""></blockquote><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">mkvmerge will accept mp4 files, ts files, almost any video format as input. It produces mkv output, and you can use the mkv file as a video or recording in mythtv.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="">[h264 @ 0x25609c0] mmco: unref short failure<br class="">Last message repeated 1 times<br class="">[h264 @ 0x25609c0] number of reference frames (0+5) exceeds max (4; probably corrupt input), discarding one<br class="">[h264 @ 0x25609c0] mmco: unref short failure<br class="">Last message repeated 1 times<br class="">Input #0, mpegts, from '/store/Movies/outputfile.mp4':<br class="">Duration: 01:27:57.65, start: 1.400000, bitrate: 2686 kb/s<br class="">Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709, top first), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 50 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc<br class="">Stream #0:1[0x101](eng): Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 256 kb/s<br class=""></blockquote><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">The ffmeg log shows that it is a ts file that has been renamed to mp4. This is ok, most players including mythfrontend and leanfront will detect the correct file type and play it.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can resolve the issue which is *certain* to be some funny in their encoding<br class="">For Example<br class=""><br class="">This recording is 720 but my transcode fails, I have to transcode with my h264cut.sh<br class="">Then 100s or 1000s of cuts work perfectly in mythfrontend and in VLC.<br class="">A few, including this one, work perfectly in mythfrontend but have 70ish mS lip sync in vlc.<br class=""><br class="">Clearly I have some learning to do<br class=""></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">"My name is John Weatherington Wells</div><div class="">I'm a dealer in Magic and Spells" (Obscure reference to Gilbert and Sulivan)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I took my mp4 with lip sync issues, did mkvmerge on it and voila perfect sync, So Peter you showed me how to save hours messing with shotcut. Thanks.</div><div class="">James</div></body></html>