[mythtv] Ticket #799

[Mark Spieth]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:36 am, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:43 am, Thomas Börkel wrote:
> > Could someone please have a look at ticket #799 (pretty old, but was
> > reopend recently)?
> >
> > For me, that's a pretty nasty bug in 0.20, because it means that some
> > 0.20 recordings cannot be transcoded at all. I can provide a sample
> > file, if needed.
>
> Hi,
>
> This bug is biting me too since upgrading to 0.20.
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/799
>
> I'm in Australia with standard depth DVB-T recordings on ABC.  No sure
> about other channels.  Appears the on screen display is out by 25/30 but
> only for new recordings.
>
> Paul
>
>Is the problem because there is a fourth video stream with a bitrate of 0
>which is detected as 29.97 frames per second instead on 25 frames per 
>second?

try deleting the first 500K from the front of the file (use dd with 
skip=500000 bs=1c) and try again.
I have noticed that lavf can sometimes not get things right.
mark