[mythtv-users] Remove corruption in video stream

[John]

On 13/10/2022 14:48, Peter Bennett wrote:
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> On 10/12/22 11:12, John wrote:
>> On wet and windy days i get the occasional corruption in the recorded 
>> data stream from a DVB-T2 source.
>>
>> This can cause Leanfront to hang when jumping forward. It seems to 
>> block the hardware decoder on a ShieldTV such that killing off 
>> Leanfront and restarting it doesn't help nothing will play. 
>> Mythfrontend will not play either after this. Rebooting the Shield  
>> resolves the issue but is not a desirable solution.
>>
>> Running mkvmerge on the file instigated by a user job resolves the 
>> problem removing the corruption.
>>
>> However I would like to automate this running the cleanup job on all 
>> recordings from the dodgy tuner.
>>
>> As the job writes over the original file, it would cause problems 
>> presumably if instigated by the recording finishing if somebody was 
>> watching it at the time.
>>
>> Ideas please.
>>
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> This user job runs as a custom user job in MythTV to convert a 
> recording to mkv format. You can set it up as a user job and include 
> in your recording rules to run it automatically after each recording. 
> I have not used it in a long time so there may be stuff that is out of 
> date.
>
> https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/userjob_mkv.sh 
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>
> Peter
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Thanks there is stuff in there that I can use