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M89SE
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2016-12-17, 16:02
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-17, 16:03 by M89SE.)
Hi
I noticed a disturbing bug, when starting a video the OSD won't disappear. The problem started appear in build #1213 and haven't been fixed in #1216x.
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I have been having problems seeing video/audio with the occasional H264 recorded video files via PVR (mythtv backend). This seems to affect about 1 in 10 HD video recordings made from BBC1 HD in the UK. It has been hanging around for a couple of months or so and causing great frustration when I come to get my weekly strictly fix. Mythfrontend plays them fine as does mediaplayer (on an x86 gentoo linux box)
This was intermittent on one of my RPi machines. I identified a power supply issue fixed by swapping USB leads. Recently I found a 100% repeatable file on both clients so thought I'd try again....
The problem seems to relate to RPi de-interlace as changing interlace once 'playback' has started, causes the video/audio to appear.
When I play the same file via UPNP or NFS shared drive I don't get the problem; video appears immediately.
All I can think is that something is 'slower' when starting playback via PVR which causes videoplayer/deinterlace to take a different (broken) path.
Scenario: Select the recorded file from the list of recordings and select 'play' from the context menu.
Results: 'playing' icon shows with elapsed time starting to count, but fullscreen video never appears.
To get video: via sidebar, select fullscreen video, then press select and via video settings adjust de-interlace (to any available setting).
Kodi shows 'seeking' for a short period, then playback commences (flawlessly!)
I've tried with OMX acceleration enabled (my preferred solution), and only MMAL acceleration enabled - no difference
I've tried disabling the demuxer in pvr.mythtv - no difference
I've tried pausing and re-starting fullscreen video and skipping forward/back and fastforward/rewind - no video appears
I tried setting de-interlace to 'off' by default. Same issue.
Only changing deinterlace method once 'playback' has started causes any video to appear.
While investigating the problem to produce a debug log with the latest millhouse build for this post I installed #1216 which seemed to reset some of my settings? I deleted and re-installed my local pvr.mythtv install (wasn't compatible with #1216).
I was seeing it 100% repeatably using one particular file with Libreelec 7.90.009 and #1202 but now it won't happen anymore.
(I also did a mythtv channel scan and server reset although I'm sure I've reset the server since first seeing this)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining that it seems to be fixed by a server reboot, a settings reset and replacement of the addons/pvr.mythtv directory, but someone else might be having similar frustrations and I'd already written most of the post!
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After update on #1216 NFS connection to my NAS server lost (I think at least) because there are no movies and mp3 plays. Also no more connection via PuTTy (SSH) and FileZilla
[3x RPi3]#[ AV Receiver - Marantz NR1506 ]#[ TV Panasonic TX-50EXW784 ]#[ NAS - OMV 4.1.xx (Arrakis) @ NanoPI M4 ]#[ Nextcloud 17.0.3 @ ODROID C2 ]