I have used Myth to rip a large number of my DVD's to AVI files (using either the Excellent or Good setting). Now that I am starting to play back the movies, I have found something that is very troubling.<\/p>\n
On many of the movies, the first 95% of the movie (e.g. 1:13 min of a 1:26 movie) plays flawlessly. However, near the end of the movie, the audio and video starts to speed up and get jerky. (Audio\/video sync is also thrown off.)<\/p>\n
I have copied the files to a different box and played them with totem and mplayer and was happy to find that the files appear to be just fine. (or maybe mplayer\/totem deal with them better?)
It seems that the problem is with the mythv internal video player.<\/p>\n
After a random sample of movies, I'd say that at least 50-70% (but not all!) of the movies have this problem. The problem survives reboots of the mythtv box. <\/p>\n
I am using Xvmc for HDTV playback (with no problems), (OSD is B&W) but not for the internal video player. (OSD is in full color)<\/p>\n
Even if I ESC from the movie and then go back into it (the internal player resumes at the same spot) the problems continue as before. If I rewind the movie, it works correctly before the "problem starting spot" but when it hits that spot, the problems resume.<\/p>\n
I suspect it may be a problem that is caused by the MythTV ripping system, as I have re-encoded movies using mencoder that then play back correctly in the internal video player.<\/p>\n
I was able to solve this problem (which appears to be a problem in the index of the avi files generated by MythDVD) by using mencoder to re-create the index for all of my video files.<\/p>\n
mencoder -idx MOVIE_TO_FIX.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o FIXED_OUTPUT.avi<\/em><\/p>\n I created the following script to go through my video files and re-create the index (it takes about a minute per movie). The script will only process a movie one time (keeping track by creating a marker file in the hidden .fixed_list directory) so it's safe to run every time you rip new DVD's without repeating work needlessly:<\/p>\n for movie in * Movies with a problem generated the following message when re-creating the index:<\/p>\n ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 1023MB.m:<\/p>\n I'm not sure what a new RIFF chunk is, but apparently the built in MythDVD encoder is not producing them correctly. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have used Myth to rip a large number of my DVD's to AVI files (using either the Excellent or Good setting). Now that I am starting to play back the movies, I have found something that is very troubling. … Continue reading
do
if [ -f ".fixed_list\/$movie.fixed" ]
then
echo "$movie already fixed"
else
echo "Processing $movie"
mencoder -idx "$movie" -ovc copy -oac copy -o temp_file.avi
mv temp_file.avi "$movie"
touch ".fixed_list\/$movie.fixed"
fi
done<\/p><\/address>\n