Comskip with SageTV 7

[JREkiwi]

Since upgrading to SageTV 7 comskip no longer works on my .ts recordings.

New recordings result in

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 4094776:Auto selected video pid =  200
       0:Auto selected audio pid =  201
faac: frame decoding failed: Bitstream value not allowed by specification
AC3 sound at 48 khz
Audio PTS jumped 1 frames at frame 12, repairing timeline
Video PID not found, available video PID's 200, 

Parsed 0 video frames and 53904 audio frames of 25.00 fps

Maximum Volume found is 2179

I've uploaded some logs to the JREkiwi directory on the FTP server.

John

[erik]

Looks like the comskip demux is failing on this recording.
Can you upload a short recording that fails to the ftp server.

[JREkiwi]

Uploaded /JREkiwi/SageTV7.ts

John

[JREkiwi]

erik, just wondering if you've made any progress with this?

John

[erik]

I did spend some to to understand but no progress yet.
The demux is failing big time and none of the other players I tested could play the content.
Do you know any open source players that can play the content?

[JREkiwi]

I've not found anything that will play them except
SageTVPlayer.exe = modified MPlayer
SagetTVTranscoder.exe = modified FFmpeg

Is there any way to use them?

Last time I talked to the guys at SageTV about problems demuxing their files they offered to help devs with problems. You could contact them via their normal bug submission process at http://sagetv.com/bugs.html

John

[jelwood]

I have the exact same problem. All HDPVR recordings fail with SageTV 7. What's interesting is comskip 0.80.027 works. However, when I tried 0.80.028, 0.80.029, 0.80.030, and 0.80.031 they all gave the same error. I'm not sure that it's truly a SageTV7 problem, When I was using SageTV6 I was using comskip 0.80.027. I didn't try comskip version 0.80.028 or above until yesterday (I've been running SageTV7 and comskip 0.80.027 for a few months now and they've worked fine other than the accuracy of the commercial detection).

Also, regarding open source players that will play the files. VLC and MPlayer work (along with Microsoft Media Player in Windows 7). I've also converted the shows with both ffmpeg and Handbrake and they convert fine.

Is there any other information we can provide to help?

[JREkiwi]

Eric, is there any way that Comskip could be set up to use SageTV's MpegDeMux.ax as that demuxes all these things and supports the audio on NZ DVB recordings too.

John

[JREkiwi]

Eric, the files comskip is having trouble demuxing can can be played with mplayer svn-31878 and the latest ffplay.

John

[erik]

Just returning from travel, will have a look

[JREkiwi]

erik, had any luck with this? I see it still doesn't work on the latest version of comskip

John

[JREkiwi]

?

[JREkiwi]

Any progress on this. It's been a very long time since comskip has worked for me

John

[JREkiwi]

?

[erik]

About 6 weeks ago I tried the latest ffmpeg build that is supposed to work on wtv
It crashed on the .wtv test files I received from various users.
Will try to keep track of the developments and as soon as ffmpeg does not crash I will start to look how to integrate.