[mythtv-users] Music Choice playback

[Peter Bennett]

On 06/16/2018 05:19 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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> On 06/16/2018 04:43 PM, Philip Long wrote:
>> First off ... thank you all _especially_ the developers who have been 
>> giving this gift to the world for all these long years.  I just went 
>> back and checked, and it seems my first recording is a Mr. Rogers' 
>> Neighborhood from 2007, probably using MythDora.
>>
>> After STFW I've come to understand that Music Choice encodes the 
>> video in "curious" ways, but that mythtv has adapted to it, for 
>> example per this Feb 2017 thread
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>> https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/606755?search_string=music%20choice;#606755 
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>> and this wiki site
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>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Music_Choice
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>> I'm able to record the Music Choice channels just fine, and they play 
>> great with VLC, mplayer and Kodi (including AC-3 passthrough), BUT, 
>> the mythfrontend continues to hickup on buffering and then resets the 
>> audio buffer leading to constant stutters (on different front ends, 
>> including very beefy workstations).  The experience really renders 
>> the channels unusable through mythfrontend.  I've updated my backend 
>> and frontend to  v29.1-22-g675676b and it still doesn't work, and I 
>> can't seem to find any configuration changes that will make it work.
>>
>> Is there something I can do to make it work?  My next stab at it 
>> would be to try to create a playback group that called e.g. vlc 
>> rather than the frontend player or to use Kodi when I wanted to 
>> listen to the recordings.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
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> Is this the Comcast Music choice channels?
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> It works fine for me after the first minute or two of interruptions. 
> Are you playing back Live TV or a recording? What type of cable 
> adapter are you using (HD homerun prime, ceton, other)?
>
> Peter
I tried it again and I see what you mean. Something has changed to cause 
the problem. I can take a look sometime, It would help if you open a 
ticket for playback so I don't forget.

Peter