(2014-09-08, 01:49)janbar Wrote:

(2014-09-08, 01:07)janbar Wrote:

(2014-09-07, 18:33)pyrodex Wrote: I've turned on debugging and watched a show with three commercial breaks this morning. I updated the repo this morning and restarted XBMC for a fresh log.

Few notes...

The show started about 6 minutes into the program on playback, I have this recording start 1 minute early and end 1 minute late.
I had a few times the EDL cut early so I skipped back to watch the show and you will see that but I never skipped forward through the commercials
I stopped the show when the credits came on at the end.
I paused the show for about 5-10 minutes to take a phone call .


Here is the debug log from XBMC - https://www.dropbox.com/s/bw53p15t125sxr2/xbmc.log?dl=0
Here is the file I watched:

Code:

General
ID                                       : 23405 (0x5B6D)
Complete name                            : 2866_20140907115900.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-TS
File size                                : 1.77 GiB
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 7 932 Kbps
Movie name                               : Phineas and Ferb
Law rating                               : TV-Y7 (FV)

Video
ID                                       : 3905 (0xF41)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@High
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : Variable
Codec ID                                 : 2
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 7 152 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 20.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 59.940 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.129
Stream size                              : 1.60 GiB (90%)

Audio #1
ID                                       : 3906 (0xF42)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : 129
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -256ms
Stream size                              : 43.9 MiB (2%)
Language                                 : English

Audio #2
ID                                       : 3907 (0xF43)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : 129
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -235ms
Stream size                              : 43.9 MiB (2%)
Language                                 : Spanish

Text #1
ID                                       : 3905 (0xF41)-CC1
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : EIA-608
Muxing mode                              : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Text #2
ID                                       : 3905 (0xF41)-CC3
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : EIA-608
Muxing mode                              : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Text #3
ID                                       : 3905 (0xF41)-1
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : EIA-708
Muxing mode                              : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Text #4
ID                                       : 3905 (0xF41)-2
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : EIA-708
Muxing mode                              : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Menu
ID                                       : 3904 (0xF40)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Duration                                 : 31mn 58s
List                                     : 3905 (0xF41) (MPEG Video) / 3906 (0xF42) (AC-3, English) / 3907 (0xF43) (AC-3, Spanish)
Title                                    : Phineas and Ferb
Language                                 :  / English / Spanish
Law rating                               : TV-Y7 (FV)

Hi, I checked log and didn't see any try to play the recording using xbmc player. I seen only an upnp transfer:

UPnP: Building didl for object 'pvr://recordings/Defau...

The EDL can only be handle by the player of xbmc running the addon. UPNP transfer only data; The remote point has no knowledge about EDL.

EDIT: Sorry , i opened the bad log !!

Yeeh the good log now:

11:29:35 T:139986724706048 DEBUG: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: GetRecordingEdl: AV props: Frame Rate = 59.959

11:29:35 T:139986724706048 DEBUG: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: GetRecordingEdl: COMBREAK 0.000 - 308.860
11:29:35 T:139986724706048 DEBUG: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: GetRecordingEdl: COMBREAK 608.163 - 744.022
11:29:35 T:139986724706048 DEBUG: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: GetRecordingEdl: COMBREAK 1011.521 - 1131.419

If the show start before and end after the program then the problem could come from commercial detection. The first skip is from 0' to 5'5": it seems no issue about framerate. Is reading with mythfrontend skip correctly ? If yes then can you send me a cut or the full video to test it ?
A simple test is to create a cut using ui mythfrontend and then checking the show.

(2014-09-08, 07:45)glubbish Wrote:

(2014-09-03, 21:51)janbar Wrote:

(2014-09-03, 20:00)Natronch Wrote: Hi janbar,

thanks a lot for your work. Something that currently prevents me from using this plugin on a daily basis is that i observe picture corruption about every minute. The picture does not stop oder stutter but only builds some blocks and continues to play.

If I skip back and watch the same scene again, it does not happen anymore. If I'm watching some seconds in timeshift (after skipping back) it never happens. This only seems to happen if I am watching near-live.

I suspect that the data from the backend comes late and this now has an effect as the whole stream setup is faster.

Unfortunately, the debug log does not show anything when this happens.

My setup:
mythtv HEAD of 0.27 branch
xbmc HEAD of gotham branch
pvr addon HEAD of gotham branch of your repository

mythbackend is on a separate system and storing its data on btrfs (i suspect this could cause delays)

Are you aware of such an issue or do you have an idea on how to analyze it?

You should have message like "read ahead" in log. Meaning addon cannot read more data and then it wait 100ms. So after few times the timeshift grows and you should no more have the issue. I bold the thing like that.
Otherwise your player could read to fast (bad synchro) because it drop frames with errors: Here it could be due to signal quality.
Finally the backend could be too slow to write data to the disk: btrfs ? Here i use ext4 with mount options below (important !!!):

UUID=1f314843-0ab1-4dee-9e89-562446549eae /local ext4 noatime,nodiratime 0 2

Storage for livetv, recordings etc... are within /local and mount options are "noatime,nodiratime" to avoid update of access time on each read/write operation !!!

I think I am hitting the same problem. (australia east coast)
My live tv is recorded to a non boot drive as: /dev/sdb1 /2tb ext4 noatime,nodiratime 0 0

I get grey blocks filling (usually) the bottom part of the screen, but it can go up to the full screen.
I have no signal issues and its only with livetv not playback
If I pause for a few seconds, then it goes away and does not come back until next time.

P.S I am also a little confused about the updates for gotham, I am using the ppa, do I need to change that or not?

(2014-09-09, 05:34)wyild1 Wrote: Hi Janbar!

Just installed the addon from your PPA on Xbmcuntu 13.2. I am currently recording a NFL game on my backend, and lets say i try to skip and hit basically livetv, it kicks me out to the recordings screen. the cmyth plugin never did that, just stayed at the edge and wouldn't let me skip past it. It seems to if i don't skip then it will play and play and play, but if im not thinking and hit skip forward, well bam it kicks me out of the video

If you need any logs from me, please let me know

Cheers!

(2014-09-09, 17:14)wyild1 Wrote: I think I didn't explain myself good enough. What I'm saying is I'm watching a recording that is currently recording. So its is a livetv recording....so its still recording but it should behave just like livetv, but it doesn't and if you seek past the end it will stop the video.

I will upload logs when I get home tonight so hopefully they will help

(2014-09-09, 21:42)wyild1 Wrote: ....that's not now the cmyth plugin works. It works how I explained it, just like how a real mythfrontend works.

(2014-09-10, 02:35)wyild1 Wrote: I can switch back and forth between them and make it happen every time. Start a recording via mythweb. Go to recordings and start watching it. With cmyth plugin i can press the skip button all day and it wont end the recording, it just hits "Livetv" for a lack of a better term, and continues on its way

Switch back to your plugin...not even restarting XBMC, just disable the other and enable yours. Bam ends the recording right away

Here is a log if helpful: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=289729

(2014-09-10, 15:12)wyild1 Wrote: Well I hate to be that guy, but yes I would love the hack. I always record sports and watch it halfhour-hour later so i can skip commercials. With your new plugin, i find myself always having to restart my recording and skip to the end again because it keeps dying when i am caught up to livetv.

Hopefully a solution can be found. But i guess for now ill stick with the old plugin

Cheers!