[mythtv-users] 720p HD content from WPVI in Philly periodic a/v sync issues

Taylor Ralph tralph11 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 11 18:03:49 UTC 2009


--- On Fri, 12/11/09, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:

> From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 720p HD content from WPVI in Philly periodic a/v sync issues
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 10:54 AM
> Byron Poland [wpoland at gmail.com]
> wrote:
> > for the past couple of months anything I record from
> WPVI in Philadelphia
> > (delivered via clear qam from Verizon FIOS in
> Wilmington, DE), has had
> > playback problems where the video and audio fall out
> of sync, and myth then
> > speeds up the video and/or drops frames for a second
> or 2 to catch up.  I've
> > read the list and seen other threads describing a
> similar phenomenon,
> > including being isolated to one channel.  All
> other 720p and 1080 recordings
> 
> <..>
> 
> I think this is the same problem as reported here, nearly
> 2 years ago:
>   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/317736
> 
> As DanielK said "they are just using an encoding extension
> we don't
> support very well.....I believe they are broadcasting about
> 40 fps on
> a 60fps stream and marking some of the frames as
> repeatable"
> If this is true, you may have luck complaining to the
> broadcaster like
> the people in that thread did.  Unfortunately, that's
> not much of an
> option for me, as multiple broadcasters in my market have
> their
> encoders setup this way.  The only way I was able to
> play back these
> sorts of streams was by using a non-MythTV front end (sigma
> based
> SageTV HD100).
> 
> I'd love to come back to MythTV, and I'm eagerly looking
> forward to a
> fix to this.  I have a mythbox setup running trunk,
> and I'm happy to
> test patches, make snippets of these streams available to
> the devs,
> etc.
> 
> Drew

I've got a couple patches attached that might help. They are both based on 0.22-fixes but the latest av-sync changes to trunk will probably break the repeat_pict patch. Let us know if these help at all.

Also, if you provide samples then I'll have a look.

--
Taylor


      
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