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by sorrowuk
Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:51 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times
Replies: 10
Views: 2686

Re: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load ti

Managed to get it to install on the "next" firemware version. Got no errors.

Then replaced the file and now doesn't boot up.

Just stays with the red light on and does nothing. If I don't change this file works fine.
by sorrowuk
Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:19 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times
Replies: 10
Views: 2686

Re: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load ti

dom, just tried to use this on raspbmc and xbian but it didn't work. I tried just replacing the file first and removing fixup.dat then the raspberry pi wouldn't start so went back to original files. Then tried running the rpi-update command you said. (sudo rpi-update 788cddf57e1c9650f34b2cdea8c74410...
by sorrowuk
Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:18 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times
Replies: 10
Views: 2686

Re: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load ti

You don't say whether the same files play well on xbmc on another computer. They may be glitches in the original recording, perhaps reception issues? They do. Plus the files don't have the grey blocks glitches at the same point. If you rewind after its happened it then will play fine. Its just rand...
by sorrowuk
Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:05 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times
Replies: 10
Views: 2686

Re: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load ti

You don't say whether the same files play well on xbmc on another computer. They may be glitches in the original recording, perhaps reception issues? They do. Plus the files don't have the grey blocks glitches at the same point. If you rewind after its happened it then will play fine. Its just rand...
by sorrowuk
Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:08 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times
Replies: 10
Views: 2686

Re: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load ti

mkv files are indexed and you can read a small header to determine the duration, and a list of video/audio/subtitle tracks and properties. program and transport streams (like .ts files) have no index. You can only determine what is in the file be reading and parsing packets. To find the duration yo...
by sorrowuk
Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:53 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times
Replies: 10
Views: 2686

1080i H264 Recordings - Random Corruption & Long load times

These are HD 1080i ts recordings . These never used to play and crashed after a few seconds until a fix was created here - https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/115#issuecomment-10127642 Now the new raspberry pi firmware has this fix and these files play however I have 2 problems, which I d...
by sorrowuk
Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:36 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Is this working now ? I have been checking the twitter, but the comments are confusing to me. I am unsure how exactly this problem will be documented. A potential fix has been posted here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/115#issuecomment-10127642 with favourable responses. It's not g...
by sorrowuk
Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:22 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Is this working now ?

I have been checking the twitter, but the comments are confusing to me. I am unsure how exactly this problem will be documented.
by sorrowuk
Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:41 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Great, thanks for update .

Where can we check to see when this fix has arrived ? Will it show on git ?
by sorrowuk
Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:04 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

I tried the latest pi firmware and xbmc compiled today, but still froze after 10 seconds.

Think gimli is taking a look :)
by sorrowuk
Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:17 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Cool, thanks :)

Also I don't know if this is a specific raspberry pi xbmc problem, but when I use a windows computer and the windows version of the latest xbmc compiled nightly the files play back fine
by sorrowuk
Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:29 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Dom, did you take a look at them files, interested to know what you thought was going on, and if it froze for you also when trying to play :)
by sorrowuk
Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:36 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Here you go

Dropbox link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/8yx0aafaxaktu ... amples.zip

It has 3 clips I recorded from hd satellite channels using mediaportal.

For reference all sd mpeg2 clips play fine.

These clips will freeze around halfway through .
by sorrowuk
Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:58 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

I am uploading 3 small samples now that I just recorded from 3 different hd channels.

Should be uploaded in 15 minutes
by sorrowuk
Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:55 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

dom you able to take a look if you have a chance. Other people are reporting the same with the new openelec and raspbmc builds on the forums. The files play now for about 5 seconds then the picture freezes and sound freezes a few seconds after. Technically these files should play as good as h264 mkv...
by sorrowuk
Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:17 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Have just tried a new raspbmc build with a xbmc build which was compiled on the 20th october so I guess this fix is included. However I am still having some problems. The 1080i AVC (h264) recordings start playing now however they only play for about 5-10 seconds and then the picture freezes and then...
by sorrowuk
Fri Oct 19, 2012 2:02 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i deinterlacing
Replies: 21
Views: 11395

Re: 1080i deinterlacing

So could we do bob + weave deinterlacing together ?
by sorrowuk
Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:05 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i deinterlacing
Replies: 21
Views: 11395

Re: 1080i deinterlacing

Is bob the best deinterlacing the pi can do ?

Is everything else too too powerful for the processor/gpu ?
by sorrowuk
Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:07 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Raspbmc have a new thing where you can download xbmc nightly's from inside there settings app in xbmc.

So might appear there in the next builds.

Anyway thanks for fixing. :)
by sorrowuk
Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:38 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

That was quick . Thanks.

So it should be included in the next xbmc nightly build after this time ?
by sorrowuk
Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:15 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Thank you, hopefully it can be fixed again soon.

Please let me know if there is progress and when it should work again.

I guess when you get it working again with the gpu it will run better than before as it will be using the gpu now to decode instead of the arm ?
by sorrowuk
Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:51 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

Re: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Sc

Ok so these hd channels are not mpeg 2. They seem to play without the mpeg 2 codec in the config so I guess they are mpeg4 or something. I'm not sure why windows say they are mpeg 2 then. I'm not sure if its a xbmc problem. Using a windows computer and same xbmc version they play fine. Maybe linux v...
by sorrowuk
Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:14 am
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen
Replies: 46
Views: 13572

1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings no longer work - Black Screen

I have a lot of UK TV recordings. The sd recordings are in .ts mpeg 2 format. They work fine with mpeg2 hardware decoder after bought license. The hd recordings are in .ts format. Windows says they are mpeg2 also but I am not sure. This is the media info for one of the files: ===================== G...
by sorrowuk
Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:18 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: 1080i deinterlacing
Replies: 21
Views: 11395

Re: 1080i deinterlacing

If I update to this latest gpu firmware and also use the latest nightly xbmc build can I deinterlace 1080i using bob.

Do I just select the deinterlace option in xbmc and will it work ? Can I expect it to run at 50fps with no drop frames ?

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