[sebj]

Just trying to get a feel here.

Been noticing that I get a lot of shows that seem to have bad lengths recently, since dharma, issue is in xbmc live stable for sure, xbmc osx as well.

So a show that's an hour says it's say 3 minutes long. What makes this even worse is that it's also impossible to skip through the recording.

Same thing happens in mythbox, a myth:// source, and shocker, even playing the file directly over the network.

Codec issue maybe?

I'm recording with a Hauppaugge HD-PVR [email protected].

If you're experiencing this, let's keep in touch, maybe we can figure out what's going on here.

sebj

[sebj]

Don't think the container for the HDPVR files is really good since I got rid of my issue using something like this :

ffmpeg -i source.mpg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpeg
source-withtimestamps-thatstartatzero.mpg taken from this site http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/my...ers/345512

Funny thing is that when doing this, xbmc correctly sees h.264 in the info OSD.

At this point this isn't a xbmc issue. But like I said join the thread discussion if you want us to figure this out.

PS: Would now really like to rename the thread topic to HDPVR issues.

[sebj]

hacked a simple script to keep my wife sane until I figure the root cause of this

I run a user job that recreates the file with ffmpeg and this seems to fix the gaps

#!/bin/bash

if [ ! $# == 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 directory file"
exit
fi

directory="$1";
file="$2";


#
mv "${directory}/${file}" "${directory}/${file}_temp"
ffmpeg -i "${directory}/${file}_temp" -vcodec copy -acodec copy "${directory}/${file}"
rm "${directory}/${file}_temp"

run as user job :

/usr/bin/hdpvr_timestamps "%DIR%" "%FILE%"

[kartman_canada]

OK...

I'm finding the same thing but it hasn't always been this way...

Has anyone found a cause? Or, the problem the crappy output from the HDPVR?

Either way, I thought I'd try the ffmpeg fix outlined here. Seems simple enough but, when run ffmpeg on my file, I get a bunch or errors and the output file doesn't seem to play.

Is there anything special I have to do to ffmpeg to get it to handle HDPVR output?

thanx.

[sebj]

Sorry took me a while to see that someone responded nd that my response is too simplistic here :

The script I included is made for a mythtv user job only.

If you want to test it out try it directly on a file you know is wonky

ffmpeg -i /directory/file -vcodec copy -acodec copy /directory/_new_file

All this does really is copy the stream exactly, but with new timestamps without drops (that could occur on the hdpvr)

lemme know