Ok, so I don't know if other are having the same problem I am, but I suspect it has something to do with the way myth changes channels and starts recording on firewire.
A large number of my files (I said 30% above, but it might be more) are unplayable, and crash the backend when mythweb tries to load the png's. and I had to turn off preview in the front end just so I could scroll through the listing without it locking up. I don't know the cause of the problem, but I have a temporary solution for myself until the problem is fixed. The bad files seem to have extra data in the beginning of the file that causes the mplayer components to give up on the file. I guess it is extra firewire stuff before the video actually starts. Looks like packets of something, but I don't know what they are. So, my solution is a perl script that seeks through the bad files until a sequence of TS packets are found, then create a new copy of the file starting at that point. This process has fixed the 2 dozen or so files I have tried -- which were completely unplayable otherwise. On all of them so far, it has dropped around 50 K off the front of the file. If anyone wants a copy of my script I'll post it. _Use at your own risk_ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
