[mythtv-users] some channels only play audio, video is dark gray screen

[Kim Bisgaard]

Hi,

Den 18-05-2018 kl. 20:10 skrev Ed Clark:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently switched over to using XMLTV / SD as my guide source (using 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV as my "guide").  I was using DD / SD 
> previously.
>
> Unfortunately I must have done something wrong because the recordings 
> for some of the channels now play only the audio in mythfrontend.  The 
> video only comes up as a dark gray screen.  NBC (I think the show is 
> 1080i) is one of the failing channels and the CW (I think the show is 
> 720p) is another.
This is the sad state in Fedora 28 (I assume that is what you are using?)
>
> Recordings from other channels using those same boxes (OTA and cable) 
> playback fine.  And, old recordings from those channels still play as 
> expected.
Same here
>
> This happens whether I record those channels using OTA as a source 
> (HDHR-4us) or cable as a source (HDHR-3cc with a cable card).
>
> The recorded files are of normal size.
>
> And weirdly enough, mplayer will play the files fine - both audio and 
> video.
  Thanks!  I only thought to try with VLC (same results as you)
>
> But, VLC does not play the files; it spits out "Invalid frame 
> dimensions 0x0".  (I compiled VLC a couple of days ago to help debug 
> this.)
>
> Any ideas as to what I did wrong?
As I indicated above this common for distros with the new GCC compiler

Regards,
Kim

>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Clark
>
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