Problems with built-in TS reader on 1.2.13

[BerkA]

I've just upgraded to 1.2.13. I'm having no luck with the built-in transport stream reader. I've had this problem in the previous version, and I had resorted to tweaking the config.xml to disable the built-in TS reader. This version claims to have worked out the kinks, but it still doesn't work for me. Here's what I see:

Previously-recorded show with Built-in TS reader: No audio; only video. Pausing works, but then pressing play causes a loooong delay (20 seconds?) and then skips ahead a second-or-so and starts playing. Skipping forward and backward also cause a long delay. I've also seen it play very fast for a few seconds as if to "catch up" after the long unexpected pause.

Same show without the Built-in TS reader: Audio and Video are fine. Pausing/Resuming/Skipping works as expected. (Except I see a 1-second "glitch" in the audio/video after skipping -- I've gotten used to this...)

LiveTV with Built-in TS reader and with LivePreview: pauses and skips every second or so.

LiveTV without Built-in TS reader and with LivePreview: pauses and skips every second or so.

LiveTV with Built-in TS reader and without LivePreview: pauses and skips every second or so.

LiveTV without Built-in TS reader and without LivePreview: pauses for 5-10 seconds at a time then skips ahead.


I'd appreciate some help resolving these, and I'm willing to help debug it by running tests. It looks like Live and Recorded problems are probably not related. I've reproduced these and attached a series of log files. Each experiment is in its own directory in the .zip file.

[sub]

Bump this thread when I'm back in NZ and I'll take a look.

[BerkA]

Bump...
Welcome back, Sub.

[sub]

Previously-recorded show with Built-in TS reader: No audio; only video.

Can you record a 20 second or so TS file, and make it available for me on a webserver somewhere to download.

[BerkA]

Sub,
I just PMed you the link.

I noticed that this problem of not having audio is channel specific. I get audio on most other channels.
There are still other problems with the other channels: the audio is out of sync; Skip/pause are unbearable because of the problems described above.

I should add, the file I sent you is actually a brutal "cut" from a longer file. (I'm currently having reception problems.) It's on 188-byte packet boundaries, so It works fine, but the two ends may not be representative of a real recording. The command to cut was "dd bs=188 skip=680000 count=200000 if=Nova/Nova_20080520_20002100.ts of=sample_no_sound.ts"

[sub]

I'm out of town at the moment, but if you bump this thread in a couple of days, then I'll download it and take a look.

[BerkA]

Bump

[sub]

Sub,
I just PMed you the link.

I noticed that this problem of not having audio is channel specific. I get audio on most other channels.
There are still other problems with the other channels: the audio is out of sync; Skip/pause are unbearable because of the problems described above.

I should add, the file I sent you is actually a brutal "cut" from a longer file. (I'm currently having reception problems.) It's on 188-byte packet boundaries, so It works fine, but the two ends may not be representative of a real recording. The command to cut was "dd bs=188 skip=680000 count=200000 if=Nova/Nova_20080520_20002100.ts of=sample_no_sound.ts"

I've just looked at this file now, and it doesnt look like it was recorded by the 'TS Mux' option from latest version of GB-PVR? If you're sure it was, can you reproduce the problem then post the GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log? I want to check if its using the new TS Mux or the old TS Mux.