Changelog Improved resilience to handling garbage in the stream

[Petrovski]

I am assuming that by stream this includes NextPVR Freeview UK recordings because since that change made in 4.2.4 I have not had a zero length recording (I used to get them regularly prior to this version ) so that's great!
Live TV plays through glitches that I see on screen but can still drop out of playback if I skip backwards presumably when skipping past a glitch.
So I wondered if any more improvement in this area is possible?

[sub]

There is two bits to the stream.

1) There is metadata, which holds information about the stream (where to find the audio/video streams etc, and names of channels etc). The 4.2.4 change that improved resilience was in the parsing of this metadata, after I noticed that reception issues leading to certain parts of this metadata being broken, could cause the application to crash. That is no longer the case.

2) There is audio/video streams. NextPVR has no idea if there was any loss of audio/video packets, and just passes them along to the audio/video decoders, which are responsible for checking the data, and deciding if it's good enough for it to show etc.

but can still drop out of playback if I skip backwards presumably when skipping past a glitch.

If you want to post the logs showing this, I'll see if anything stands out.

[Petrovski]

I can't reproduce it at the moment, will post logs if I do. I have started another thread which may be related: Black screen at start of play - sometimes.

[Reddwarf]

Not to hijack the thread but I have some recordings that plays with fast forward from the start, audio skips to keep up....