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

[Juicebakka]

Is this fixed?

[sorrowuk]

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

Think gimli is taking a look

[oskreso]

I am also having problem with playing 1080i ts content. PI is able to deinterlace it, but playback stutters.

[oskreso]

I've connected dvb-s2 usb receiver on raspberry pi and by using tvheadend I can scan channels, but it's not playing.
I have dreambox dm800 which has 300 MHz MIPS processor and 64MB flash memory and 256 MB of RAM and 1080i video plays perfectly. Is there a way to copy settings from dreambox?
Dreambox is also linux based box.

[sorrowuk]

Dom any updates on this ?

[paulanthonyevans]

Is there any progress here on playing 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings?
I still have to revert back to a RC4 to play these files!

[paulanthonyevans]

Is there a resolution to this?
At the moment I have to revert to a RC4 version which reliably plays 1080i AVC (h264) Tv recordings, but this has no PVR plugin.

[dom]

Yes, it's with one of the codec team. Seems to be a bug in vdec3 that wasn't in vdec2. Provoked by interlaced h264 video with hierarchical B frames.
I've been told the cause has been found, and a fix is expected in a couple of days (depending on urgency of other work).

[sorrowuk]

Great, thanks for update .

Where can we check to see when this fix has arrived ? Will it show on git ?

[dom]

Great, thanks for update .

Where can we check to see when this fix has arrived ? Will it show on git ?

Yes, will show on git firmware repo. You can follow commits here:
https://twitter.com/RPF_Dev_Updates

[paulanthonyevans]

Great news .... thanks for response

[sorrowuk]

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.

[dom]

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 ... t-10127642

with favourable responses. It's not got through codec team's official testing, which is why I haven't put it in an updated firmware yet, but feel free to download the attached start.elf and fixup.dat files.
Put them on FAT partition of sdcard. They should be compatible with recent firmwares.

[sorrowuk]

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 ... t-10127642

with favourable responses. It's not got through codec team's official testing, which is why I haven't put it in an updated firmware yet, but feel free to download the attached start.elf and fixup.dat files.
Put them on FAT partition of sdcard. They should be compatible with recent firmwares.

Thanks for this, ill try them out and post back in that issue thread how it goes.

[paulanthonyevans]

This fix plays the 1080i video ok but playback is interrupted by black screen every few seconds!

Spoke too soon still experiencing picture lockups

[dom]

Your black screen might be this problem:
http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=3810

I believe that is fixed in latest raspbmc.

If you have a video file that locks up, can you provide a sample?

[paulanthonyevans]

The problem I reported relate to either a rev 1 or rev 2 board with RC5.
1080i works fine with no lock up on RC4.

I will try edit a clip for upload in the morning

[paulanthonyevans]

Here is short clip of 1080i material it is a standard DVB-S2 clip that plays in RC4 on RPI and XBMC 11-0 win32 version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

[dom]

Here is short clip of 1080i material it is a standard DVB-S2 clip that plays in RC4 on RPI and XBMC 11-0 win32 version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

This file played fine for me with updated firmware on xbmc. Are you using xbmc or omxplayer?

[paulanthonyevans]

I am using whatever is bundled with RC5 on Raspberry is that omx player?

The clip I sent was made using VideoRedo and may have been smoothed in process, but I dont think so. The original is over 7GB long and too big to upload. When played with standard RC5 it just freezes afte few secs. With updated firmware it plays fine 1st time but a 2nd play has black drop out and then freezes. The same content plays well in RC4 though with all the other RC4 issues...

[oskreso]

Hello,

did you record this ts file with dvb-s2 usb receiver on RPI or it was recorded on some other device?

I have USB DVB-S2 receiver (Technotrend S2-3600) but LiveTv plays fuzzy video, only first 5th of screen is more-less OK, rest 4/5 of screen is fuzzy.

Here is short clip of 1080i material it is a standard DVB-S2 clip that plays in RC4 on RPI and XBMC 11-0 win32 version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

[oskreso]

Try to play this one:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7hc01hx104r7ldb/6sNLmTt7c5

first 5 seconds are OK, but after goalkeeper kicks the ball, video goes mad.

Here is short clip of 1080i material it is a standard DVB-S2 clip that plays in RC4 on RPI and XBMC 11-0 win32 version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29099999/Islam% ... 8_21-00.ts

This file played fine for me with updated firmware on xbmc. Are you using xbmc or omxplayer?