2 Channels dark but with sound

[Elmo Putney]

Martin,
I've got 2 sat channels that refuse to show video on the NMT, this happened after I stuck a new card in my box and re-scanned, other channels on the same transponder are ok.

I think this may have happened before to me but my memory is flaky, something in my head tells me the tuning info could have the wrong vpid...would that make any sense?

[mvallevand]

mvpmcx2 will read the stream that NextPVR sends and calculate the audio and video pid's to use independently from NextPVR. Try to play one of these bad channels and telnet to your NMT, issue the following command

cat /tmp/dumpts.txt

and copy the output into another post.

Martin

[Elmo Putney]

Here is a bad channel:

Code:

Read 200000 bytes 4
pid 1 1
pid 310 4
pid 320 815
pid 330 49
pid 331 48
pid 340 10
pid 345 28
pid 371 40
pid 372 1

New PAT
  transport_stream_id : 1
  version_number      : 1
    | program_number @ [NIT|PMT]_PID
    |            260 @ 0x136 (310)
  active              : 1

New active PMT
  program_number : 260
  version_number : 11
  PCR_PID        : 0x140 (320)
    | type @ elementary_PID
    | 0x02 (ISO/IEC 13818-2 Video) @ 0x140 (320)
    |  ] 0x11 : ""
    | 0x03 (ISO/IEC 11172 Audio) @ 0x14a (330)
    |  ] 0x0a : "fra"
    | 0x03 (ISO/IEC 11172 Audio) @ 0x14b (331)
    |  ] 0x0a : "qad"
    |  ] 0x7f : "fra"
    | 0x06 (ISO/IEC 13818-1 Private PES data packets) @ 0x159 (345)
    |  ] 0x45 : ""
    |  ] 0x56 : "frafra("
    | 0x06 (ISO/IEC 13818-1 Private PES data packets) @ 0x154 (340)
    |  ] 0x59 : 1 subtitles,
       | 0 - lang: fra, type: 32, cpid: 1, apid: 1
    | 0x05 (ISO/IEC 13818-1 Private Section) @ 0x172 (370)
    |  ] 0x6f : ""
    | 0x0b (ISO/IEC 13818-6 type B) @ 0x173 (371)
    |  ] 0x66 : "#"
    |  ] 0x13 : ""
    |  ] 0x52 : Component tag: 190
    | 0x0b (ISO/IEC 13818-6 type B) @ 0x174 (372)
    |  ] 0x66 : "#"
    |  ] 0x13 : ""
    |  ] 0x52 : Component tag: 213
    | 0x0c (ISO/IEC 13818-6 type C) @ 0x175 (373)
    |  ] 0x52 : Component tag: 117
    | 0x80 (User Private) @ 0x176 (374)

And a good one....

Code:

Read 200000 bytes 4
pid 1 1
pid 210 4
pid 220 907
pid 230 39
pid 231 26
pid 240 1
pid 241 15
pid 250 1
pid 270 1
pid 271 1

New PAT
  transport_stream_id : 1
  version_number      : 1
    | program_number @ [NIT|PMT]_PID
    |            272 @ 0xd2 (210)
  active              : 1

New active PMT
  program_number : 272
  version_number : 3
  PCR_PID        : 0xdc (220)
    ] 0x05 : "CUEI"
    | type @ elementary_PID
    | 0x02 (ISO/IEC 13818-2 Video) @ 0xdc (220)
    |  ] 0x11 : ""
    | 0x03 (ISO/IEC 11172 Audio) @ 0xe6 (230)
    |  ] 0x0a : "fra"
    | 0x03 (ISO/IEC 11172 Audio) @ 0xe7 (231)
    |  ] 0x0a : "eng"
    | 0x06 (ISO/IEC 13818-1 Private PES data packets) @ 0xf1 (241)
    |  ] 0x56 : "frafra"
    |  ] 0x45 : ""
    | 0x06 (ISO/IEC 13818-1 Private PES data packets) @ 0xf0 (240)
    |  ] 0x59 : 1 subtitles,
       | 0 - lang: fra, type: 32, cpid: 1, apid: 1
    | 0x86 (User Private) @ 0xfa (250)
    | 0x05 (ISO/IEC 13818-1 Private Section) @ 0x10e (270)
    |  ] 0x6f : ""
    | 0x0b (ISO/IEC 13818-6 type B) @ 0x10f (271)
    |  ] 0x66 : "#"
    |  ] 0x13 : ""
    |  ] 0x52 : Component tag: 174

[mvallevand]

I can see nothing wrong with that information so if there is video stream with pid 320 it should play. Does it play on the PC? Also If you want, I could look at a 10MB chunck made from CutChunk if you want to email it to me or upload it somewhere.

Martin

[Elmo Putney]

king of sat suggests that info is correct, the channel in question was france 5 on 11591 en.kingofsat.net/tv.php?&b=86&pos=5W&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear.

It works ok on both the server an pc client, i'll put a chunk on dropbox later.

[Elmo Putney]

20Meg should be available here in about 2 minutes:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6006420/La%20bic...5-chunk.ts

Thanks

[mvallevand]

Give this a shot, it fixes a bug in the logic on User streams.

Bonne chance.

Martin

[Elmo Putney]

Great thats fixed that channel, I have also noticed one of the other channels on the same transponder causes the nmt to immediately restart NPVR as soon as live tv is attempted. I did a recording and this plays back ok on the NMT in NPVR mode, is it worth me uploading a chunk?

[mvallevand]

That problem sounds like one one were I would need all the logs (one NMT configured). However going by instinct, if the problem station is "France Ô" it might simply be the GBPVR/NextPVR problem with accented characters in filenames. Try using "France O" before going through the bother of the logs.

Martin

[Elmo Putney]

Yep you nailed it. Thanks Martin