[mythtv-users] IPTV recorder seems broken -- large jumpy files

[Greg Thompson]

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 8:56 AM, Rajil Saraswat <rajil.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04/06/2018 06:52 AM, Greg Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> Why are your fps jumping around so much? It looks like maybe your ffmpeg command line needs tweaked. 
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> It seems to work fine if I run it independently in cli. Also, I have
> noticed that if i use the IPTV recorder in mythtv the stream works fine.
> It is only when using External recorder with ffmpeg when things break
> down. Could this be related how fast Mythtv wants to read from ffmpeg
> and how quickly can ffmpeg deliver?

I suppose it could.. What is your source? Also what is your ffmpeg command line ? I use a TBS2603 Encoder so I am not doing anything fancy, just taking the .TS from the encoder and using ffmpeg to output that to STDOUT. Here is my command...

ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel panic -i http://192.168.1.48:8080/hdmi -codec copy -r 60 -f mpegts - &