[mythtv-users] Fixing broken recordings

[John Pilkington]

On 23/01/14 04:36, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> On 01/22/2014 07:42 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>
>> Mark Perkins
>> 0427 60 44 92
>>
>>> On 22 Jan 2014, at 2:09 pm, "Mark Perkins" <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>> ..snip..
>>> I think the 'decoding error' is just Mythcommflag's way of saying
>>> 'reached end of file'. I think the "541478725 (541478725)" is the
>>> number of bytes in the file.
>> Sorry Yan but that file size bit is wrong, I've made that mistake
>> previously but I don't recall now what the number means. But I do
>> think the end of file bit is more or less correct, but would need
>> someone in the know to explain exactly what was happening at that point.
>
> It's not the file length.  I've tried re-encoding various ways but
> pretty much everything I have crashes.  The file plays in mplayer but
> throws a lot of errors.
>
> I have not tried re-encoding in mencoder....
>
> Anyone know the "proper" encoding for an mpeg-2 file?  Mostly the audio
> codec requirements?
>

I haven't been able to identify the format you're using, but for my SD 
mpeg-2 recordings Project-X does a pretty good job of cleaning up fairly 
rare reception errors.  No guarantees, but you might find  either PX 
itself or this script useful.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythDVBcut