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km at mathcs

Nov 17, 2007, 7:14 AM

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mpg2 corruption

I run a recent version of the trunk against an HDHomerun. I find that
many of the mpg2 captured recordings have bad audio and video dropouts
and artifacts for extended periods. In fact this is bad enough that when
the frontend hits one of these segments, it often segfaults.

I separately poll the HDHomerun every few minutes to log debug info on
the active tuner/streams, and the log shows nothing abnormal when I
correlate it with the bad captures.

The backend log (at least at default debug settings) shows nothing
corresponding the to the bad captures.

Linux messages/dmesg shows nothing.

THe HDHomerun is capturing clear QAM off cable. I also record on the
Comcast DVR which doesn't show any of this problem on the same recordings.

I see the same corruption playing back the myth files in
vlc/xine/mpalyer, so it is not the frontend.

I've had this problem for some time, and precedes the recent ffmpeg sync
in the trunk.

Any suggestions on how to debug this?


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danielk at cuymedia

Nov 17, 2007, 7:21 AM

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Re: mpg2 corruption [In reply to]

On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 10:14 -0500, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> I run a recent version of the trunk against an HDHomerun. I find that
> many of the mpg2 captured recordings have bad audio and video dropouts
> and artifacts for extended periods. In fact this is bad enough that when
> the frontend hits one of these segments, it often segfaults.
>
> I separately poll the HDHomerun every few minutes to log debug info on
> the active tuner/streams, and the log shows nothing abnormal when I
> correlate it with the bad captures.

This is probably a reception problem for which there are many helpful
discussions on the user's mailing list, cable installers often forget
to ground the cable properly and people often use RG-59 cables when
they need to use RG-6.

With the HDHomeRun it could also be a networking problem. In which
case you need to google for any known problems with your network
drivers or with the switches or hubs located between your computer
and the HDHomeRun. Using a preemptive kernel and oversizing your
networking buffers can help.

At this point it looks like this is a use question without any impact
on MythTV development so just CC me on your first e-mail to the users
list about this and I'll follow the discussion there.

-- Daniel

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