[mythtv-users] 0.22 Instability during playback of partially recorded HD TV

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jan 19 00:06:57 UTC 2010


On 01/18/2010 08:25 AM, Dave Richardson wrote:
> I use Internal Player on separate ION ITX FE.  It plays HD movies from
> files off of Samba/SMB share just fine.  It also plays HD "Watch TV" from
> separate BE and HDHR just fine.
>
> Yesterday I noticed that playing an HD TV recording (NFL football) that
> was not completely recorded (i.e. still recording while I started watching
> it) exhibited all sorts of problems (no logs yet, sorry).
>
> Basically two issues would happen:
>
> 1) If I used the +30seconds button to skip forward without a 1-2 second
> pause between skips, the SPDIF audio would go away (my receiver would note
> that the digital audio signal was zero), the screen display would get
> choppy, and either the MythFrontend would crash or the problem would
> resolve itself
>
> 2) When Fox broadcast switched from SD callsigns back to HD game, the
> digital audio would break and I'd be watching in silence with no recovery
> other than to restart watching the recording and having to skip forward -
> which took me back to #1.
>
> I'm sorry that I didn't bring error logs to this discussion.  I wanted to
> see if this rings a bell for anyone before I get to that point.
>
> My next test will be to let the finished recording play to see if it
> breaks in a similar way.
>   

I'd suggest trying to change the audio track through the Menu (or +, I
think).

Mike


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