[mythtv-users] Video card update fail

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 01:46:01 UTC 2018


Some more response on some of the issues


> You can check if the files are the problem by using other video
> players, such as mplayer or VLC.  The ultimate test is to export the
> file to a known good PC (running Windows?) and play it there.
>
> The images I posted of the blocks are from VLC and this looks the same as
it did when played with Mythfrontend.  Clearly in the file.


>
>
> I recommend adding the "-v record" option to the mythbackend command
> line to get it to do extra logging about the recording process.  Then
> running this command after a recording completes:
>
> grep -a "overall_score=\"0" /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>
> I was unable to figure out how to add a parameter to the launch of
mythbackend.  But I see these kind of messages in the log but only when a
recording is stopped, not short ones.

Here is an example that corresponded to stopping a recording so maybe the
logging you wanted is happening by default.

Oct 11 18:12:39 NewMyth mythbackend: mythbackend[921]: I TVRecEvent
tv_rec.cpp:848 (FinishedRecording) TVRec[1]:
FinishedRecording(1021_2018-10-12T01:12:00Z) damaged recq:<RecordingQuality
overall_score="0.269231" key="1021_2018-10-12T01:12:00Z"
countinuity_error_count="2" packet_count="167388">#012    <Gap
start="2018-10-12T01:12:00Z" end="2018-10-12T01:12:19Z" duration="19"
/>#012</RecordingQuality>

None with  a duration="1"

Please let me know if I should add the -v record and if so, how do I do
that.  I googled without luck.

Does this narrow down the problem at all?
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