[mythtv-users] Channel scanner won't find a specific channel

[David Parker]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:02 PM, David Parker <parker.david.a at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made a ~100 MB sample available here:
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BypQdHvM5DGjeF9jT1NzcDVEbjA/view?usp=sharing
> [1]
>
> This is the first 54 seconds of the recording which I have been testing
> with this whole time.  This file is choppy when played through MythTV, but
> plays fine everywhere else.  It even plays just fine in the Google player
> which shows in browser when you first click the link.
>
> I've tried the other suggestions (thanks for those, guys!), and here are
> my results:
>
> 1. Running "femon -H" shows the same information regardless of what
> channel I am watching.  It just says this:
>
>     status SCVYL | signal  92% | snr   0% | ber -1 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
>     status SCVYL | signal  92% | snr   0% | ber -1 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
>     status SCVYL | signal  92% | snr   0% | ber -1 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
>
> Note sure what the -1 BER value means, and Google wasn't much help.  But
> the other channels work fine and still had that value, so it seems like
> it's ok (that could be a gross misjudgment on my part, though).
>
> 2. The original recording and the 100 MB sample I extracted both stutter
> terribly in MythTV.  But the version created using "mythtranscode -m" plays
> perfectly.  Any idea why?
>
> Thanks John for the mythtranscode tip.  This is a bit less of a
> show-stopper now, since it looks like I can record from this channel and
> then run a mythtranscode job to fix the video.  I still don't know why this
> particular channel causes such trouble, though, but only for MythTV.
>

Left out one thing.  Also tried watching the channel but pausing for 30
seconds to let it buffer a bunch of the stream.  No difference, playback
was still choppy in the buffered video (which I guess makes sense because
it's choppy in recorded video, too).

    - Dave
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