4.05 Skipping Issues on Recordings

[z06racer66]

This has been happening for me since 4.x, but it seems that 4.0.5 is having the most issues for me with skipping on recordings (.ts files). If I skip forward, it will skip but then the video will start off in fast motion and then go to slow motion and then eventually back to normal playback speed. During that fast motion, slow motion period, the timeline will not advance. Meanwhile, the audio will skip just fine and will be out of sync with the video until the video settles down. I've tried different decoders along with trying the legacy TS reader with not much luck. When I looked at the log files, it seems that all is fine. Another issue that will happen is if I just let the recording play the full length, the timeline will have a tendency to be longer than the actual video length. An example is an hour show (1:02:00 length) will have the timeline show as 1:06:00 right before it completes.

I guess I'm stumped and not quite sure where to check next. So, any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Tom

Attached are the logs.

[gEd]

there are a few folks having similar problems due to the significant changes that sub made to the TS Reader in the recent release. You need to isolate a recording (ideally quite small) that you can upload to dropmox or somewhere, so he can download and reproduce the issue. See this thread

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?60071-Npvr-4

and try out the upodated TS Reader in #10 from this thread as it has fixed times issues for several of us and seemed to improved skipping for 1 or 2 people (but not me).
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...n-timeline

[z06racer66]

Thanks for the link to the updated TS Reader. I just gave that a try but it didn't help me. I created a small 5 minute recording (using the non-updated TS Reader) and recorded it in action showing the issue. I will somehow get all the info to Sub and hopefully he can take a look at it.

[sub]

Thanks for the sample file (via PM). I've had a good look at it, and I'm not seeing any issue playing it. I also tried it with the same audio/video decoder you're using, to double check. I am running a slightly updated NPVRTSReader4.ax here though, and it's possible your clip had the issue specifically fixed in that version. When you get a chance, can you install the latest reader, and try playing that file to see if there issue is resolved?

You can get the reader from:
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...post520954

[z06racer66]

Nope, that one didn't work neither. Not sure if the logs are telling you much, but attached is a new log and another photo that I took. This time, I hit either a rewind or a skip-back button on the remote near the end of the recording and it sort of freaked out and the timeline shows that it is over 5 minutes past the end of the recording.

[sub]

Can you delete the timing.info file to see if it helps? (or rename it so it's not found)

[z06racer66]

I deleted the timing.info file and there was no change.

[sub]

Without the timing.info, what does the duration report as when playing it in NextPVR?

[z06racer66]

It reports it as 6:20.

[sub]

Hmm, I've just taken another look, and can't see anything odd happening.

You can see a video of me skipping to the end of the file, and back, and bit of fastforwarding, and a bit more skipping here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFTv4mJo...e=youtu.be

If you can find a very easy set of steps that cause an issue, then I have some extra logging we can turn on to get some diagnostic info. It has top be a short set of steps though, rather than just lots of random skipping around the file, because it'll generate too much log to see what is happening. ie, something like start playing, wait a few seconds, skip forward, wait a few seconds, skip back, bam.