[mythtv-users] Varying data formats during digital reception
Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
moitinho at civil.ist.utl.pt
Mon Nov 5 17:46:40 UTC 2012
On Monday 05 November 2012, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 05/11/12 16:00, John Pilkington wrote:
> > On 05/11/12 14:37, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote:
> >> On Saturday 03 November 2012, Mike Perkins wrote:
> >> ....
> >>
> >>> The question is: What changes are being made to mythtv to cope with the
> >>> fact that the bitrate, framerate, resolution, etc of any recorded file
> >>> may change from instant to instant?
> >>
> >> Last Saturday I updated to 0.26 (mythbuntu system with an old nvidia
> >> card ==> nouveau, opengl, no vdpau) and since then I have been "trying
> >> to understand" why the frontend sometimes hangs. The files are ok for
> >> vlc, but mplayer does not like them.
> >>
> >> The problem happen when some new programs start and I was ready to blame
> >> the broadcaster, but reading this information I realised that the
> >> problem seems to happen exactly when the program changes from wide to
> >> 4:3, something that happened in 0.25 without problem.
> >>
> >> Is there a possible relation? I can try to cut a sample with the
> >> problematic passage.
> >
> > I would think it's very likely. The various players probably look at
> > different places in the recording to identify the streams that are
> > present.
> >
> > If you can create a series of cutpoints using the MythTV editor you may
> > be able to get a usable version using this. It needs only a seektable
> > based on valid keyframes. I haven't had occasion to use it recently and
> > it used mythconfig.txt, which is no more.
> >
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythpycutter
>
> ...problem is, he has to get the program started before he can use the
> editor to set the cutpoints...
>
> possible if you have sufficient padding before the actual content starts, I
> suppose. But will the editor fail be
> cause the format changed, even so?
I am not at home but, effectively, using the editor is not possible. Editing
those files past that point also hangs the frontend.
But I can work with "tail/head -c" by iteration/bisection of the file, until I
just capture the zone of the relevant point.
I'll post that tonight.
Regards
ZP
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