[mythtvnz] Transcoding Issues anyone

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Tony Sauri <hoiho.nz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone in NZ had been having transcoding issues of recent
> times.
>
> I have been running an increasingly ancient Myth System (Mythbuntu 9.04
> MythTV 0.21) successfully for a number of years using DVB-T signals.
> Because of my ancient front-end (IBM T23 laptop and Sony CRT TV) I have had
> to transcode everything I record before watching it.

My initial reaction was "get a better frontend, ION systems are
relatively cheap. However you do have the difficulty that the typical
output of an ion box, or any vdpau video card, is HDMI and/or VGA so
you have difficulties with a CRT. There might be some 8xxx series
nvidia cards lurking around with s-video out.

>  In the early days I
> spent a long time creating a Userjob to do the transcode for me and all was
> well for several years.
>
> About 1st Sept this year programs that come from the TVNZ or MediaWorks
> Muxes have tended to fail the transcode step.  The job runs fine but the
> output is un-watchable ... even unplayable on my system.
>
> I am thinking that something funny has happened to the stream and container
> timestamps that are broadcast.
>
> Not looking for solutions yet as I have a project in hand to use an Ion
> based box and I think the priority has just been ramped on that but I
> thought a few of you that might be experimenting with streaming to iPads or
> using the Android front-end stuff might have seen anything similar.
>
> Tony
>