[mythtv] 0.21 and ffmpeg handling of corrupt ac3

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 17:37:46 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Scott D. Davilla <davilla at 4pi.com> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Tom Dexter
>  ><digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >It occurred to me that, if at any point mythtv uses a newer version of
>  >ffmpeg, this issue will pretty much fix itself.  In any case, if
>  >anyone thinks I should log a bug, and maybe post my patch for anyone
>  >looking for a quick fix, let me know.  I already posted it to the
>  >users list.
>
>  Just a though, but how about fixing these problems at the source
>  before they get propagated to disk at the backend. For DVB and
>  HDHomeRun, the backend load is very light and since one would just be
>  doing crc checks and fixes, this would not add much to the backend
>  load.
>
>  That way, the recorded file is guaranteed "clean". Sort of solve the
>  problem at the source and eliminate "garbage in garbage out".
>
>
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I'm far from being really knowledgeable when it comes to video
processing, but is that CRC check even possible without actually
demuxing the file and decoding the ac3?

For what's it's worth, I was doing very extensive tests of CPU usage
after my 0.21 upgrade, so I had detailed notes of my frontend CPU
usage for 720p and 1080i.  That patch added absolutely no measurable
CPU usage to the frontend in my situation.

Tom


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