[fixed] live Tv freeze - 15- --> 30+ helps (2 Viewers)

tompa

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    Hi!
    I have had some trouble (not very often) with Swedish local news, meaning that when they stop the picture sometimes freezes and I have to stop and restart the channel (as I remember they are switching audio format??).
    Tonight I succeeded to get this in the logs ...hopefully :)

    I would appreciate if you could take a look at it!
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    Hi!
    I have had some trouble (not very often) with Swedish local news, meaning that when they stop the picture sometimes freezes and I have to stop and restart the channel (as I remember they are switching audio format??).
    Tonight I succeeded to get this in the logs ...hopefully :)

    I would appreciate if you could take a look at it!
    /tompa

    I think I can see from the logs what's going on - the local news switchover points seem to be creating stream continuity errors and big PTS timestamp jumps (the stream switching is not 'clean').....I'll think about it....

    Tony
     

    tourettes

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    Hi!
    I have had some trouble (not very often) with Swedish local news, meaning that when they stop the picture sometimes freezes and I have to stop and restart the channel (as I remember they are switching audio format??).
    Tonight I succeeded to get this in the logs ...hopefully :)

    I would appreciate if you could take a look at it!
    /tompa

    I think I can see from the logs what's going on - the local news switchover points seem to be creating stream continuity errors and big PTS timestamp jumps (the stream switching is not 'clean').....I'll think about it....

    Sounds like a TsWriter bug - it should smooth of the timestamp discontinuities.
     

    Owlsroost

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    tompa is using ForTheRecord.

    TsReader ought to cope with the PTS jumps, but something runs into problems around here:

    Code:
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.871 [1420]  MPEG I-FRAME found 7837.203000 
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.873 [1420]  MPEG First '0' frame found. 7837.123000 
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.906 [1420]Audio Samples : 3, First : 7836.442, Last : 7836.722
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.907 [1420]Video Samples : 3, First : 7837.123, Last : 7837.203
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.908 [1420]Compensation : ( Rnd : 0 mS ) Audio pts greatly ahead Video pts . Add 0.601 sec of extra video comp to start now !...( real time TV )
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.910 [1420]Elapsed time from pause to Audio/Video ( total zapping time ) : 1708008 mS
    09-10-2011 19:59:04.911 [1420]aud:Compensation:-41670.953, Clock on start 46443.715 m_rtStart:3063760

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    tompa is using ForTheRecord.

    TsReader ought to cope with the PTS jumps, but something runs into problems around here:

    I shouldn't have to since TsWriter has the logic in place (duration calculation for example is not possible if .ts file has timestamp discontinuities. To get it work we would need to scan the whole .ts file before we could start up playing which might be a bit slow on network connection and HD material).

    4TR should be fixed in the first place since TsReader cannot be fixed completely without introducing any performance issues. So, my advice is to reproduce the issue with bare TVE3 and if it wont happen -> open a support request for 4TR.
     

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    AW: live Tv freeze - 15- --> 30+ helps

    I gave 0028 a chance and it's running very decent so far.

    tourettes
    I don't think, that 4TR is the problem. I had some of these problems also under TVE3.
    Tony's doing a good job, perhaps he's able to get the thing running perfect - I'm sure he'll do the job.
     

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    Re: AW: live Tv freeze - 15- --> 30+ helps

    Tony's doing a good job, perhaps he's able to get the thing running perfect - I'm sure he'll do the job.

    Even he cannot do miracles :) If there is a discontinuity in stream timestamps - lets say broadcaster has jump of two hours in advance the .ts file duration would be +2 hours (unless the whole file is read thru).
     

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    Tourettes is quite correct :) (and the magic wand got broken a while ago ;)) - I only said I'd think about it, and anyway it looks like the base problem here is that the broadcaster (or telco) isn't doing their job properly.....

    Tony
     

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    Tony, i found out that a lot/all of my freezing picture problems were caused by a bad Astoncrypt Cam on second FloppyDTV card (so not allways visable but only if card 1 is in use), in combination with a card sharing device (SmartWii) which transmits to the smartcards through radio waves. Moved the device to a less radio waves interference location and prefect picture with no freezes. Found a lot of "PES H264 0-0-1 fail" in ts reader log that's what triggered me to look at the cams.
    If you can make a combination of this threads no stop mod 29 and the 300ms audio version from other thread would be great.
    Just wanted to report back and thank you for your efforts.

    Greetings,

    Wouter
     

    Owlsroost

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    Good :)

    Yes, the 'PES 0-0-1 fail' messages are usually caused by decryption failures.

    If you can make a combination of this threads no stop mod 29 and the 300ms audio version from other thread would be great.

    It's in progress...

    Tony
     

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