[mythtv-users] Some recordings won't transcode and won't play on Normal player

[John Pilkington]

On 31/01/14 12:21, Tony Gould wrote:
> has anyone seen this? With some recordings I make, they will play on the
> VDPAU playback profile (which I believe goes to my NVidia card), but
> they error on transcode and fail to play on the Normal playback profile.
> This isn't a showstoper, obviously, but it's something that bugs me. It
> happened every so often on 0.21 which I ran until recently, and happens
> on every episode of "What's new Scooby Doo" that I record for my kids
> here in the UK (on the Hauppage NovaT-500 dual tuner), plus occasionally
> on some other recordings.
>
> when I tried to play a recording just now on the Normal profile, the
> backend repeatedly said
>
> Jan 31 12:12:36 tv mythbackend: mythbackend[1960]: E DVBRead
> mpeg/mpegstreamdata.cpp:365 (AssemblePSIP)
> MPEGStream[3](0x7f01140617d8): Error: offset>181, pes length & current
> cannot be queried
>
> thanks,
>
> Tony.

I haver had trouble with this show because it comes at the end of the 
cbbc schedule.  Are you recording past 7 pm?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/556288#556288

I believe the offset>181 may mean that a channel rescan is due.  It 
doesn't appear to cause real problems.

HTH

John P