Sometimes my MPEG-2 video recordings have problems playing back.

[antdude]

Once in a while, I noticed my DVBViewer Pro 4.2.1.0's recording seems to get corrupted with audio desynchronization by a few seconds (audio delayed) in the latest K-Lite Codec Mega Pack's Media Player Home Cinema and Windows Media Player v10. If I try to play the same files in DVBViewer Pro, then the video freezes. I can't skip, fast forward, etc. VideoLAN Client Media Player v1.1.4 can play it, but no audio.

 

 

Example with the latest recording with this incident:

Log (*.log):

NBC-4LA (eng) 4.1 9/22/2010

 

G:\videos\recorded\TV\09-22_19-55-00_NBC-4LA (eng) 4.1_Undercovers.mpg

 

Device: Air2PC-ATSC-PCI 2

 

7:55:00 PM / 12:00:00 AM (~ 0.0 MB) Start

7:55:01 PM / 12:00:01 AM (~ 0.0 MB) Errors: 2

7:55:01 PM / 12:00:01 AM (~ 0.0 MB) PID 52: AC3 Audio 5.1, 48 khz, 384 kbps

7:55:01 PM / 12:00:01 AM (~ 0.0 MB) PID 53: AC3 Audio Stereo, 48 khz, 192 kbps

7:55:02 PM / 12:00:02 AM (~ 1.0 MB) PID 49: MPEG2 Video, 16:9, 1920x1080, 29.97 fps

9:00:48 PM / 1:05:48 AM (~ 6287.6 MB) Stop

 

Average Data Rate: 1.592 MB/s

Total Size: 6287.6 MB (6593035135 Bytes)

 

Log (.txt):

[General]

Version=1.1

[Media]

Created=9/22/2010 7:55:00 PM

Channel=NBC-4LA (eng) 4.1

LastShown=12/30/1899

LastPosition=0

Played=0

[0]

Id=103

Date=9/22/2010

Time=8:00:00 PM

Duration=1:00:00 AM

Title=Undercovers

Info=

Description=Steven and Samantha Bloom, formerly two of the CIA's best spies, are reinstated when a good friend goes missing.

Charset=0

Content=0

[stats]

Errors=2

Size=6.14 GB (6593035135 bytes)

Avr. Datarate=1.592 MB/s

Device=Air2PC-ATSC-PCI 2

 

 

FYI from MediaInfo v0.7.35:

General

Complete name : G:\videos\recorded\TV\09-22_19-55-00_NBC-4LA (eng) 4.1_Undercovers.mpg

Format : MPEG-PS

File size : 6.14 GiB

Duration : 1h 5mn

Overall bit rate : 13.4 Mbps

 

Video

ID : 224 (0xE0)

Format : MPEG Video

Format version : Version 2

Format profile : Main@High

Format settings, BVOP : Yes

Format settings, Matrix : Default

Duration : 1h 5mn

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 12.5 Mbps

Nominal bit rate : 13.4 Mbps

Width : 1 920 pixels

Height : 1 080 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

ActiveFormatDescription : Full frame 16:9 image

Frame rate : 29.970 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Interlaced

Scan order : Top Field First

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.201

Stream size : 5.75 GiB (94%)

 

Audio #1

ID : 128 (0x80)

Format : AC-3

Format/Info : Audio Coding 3

Mode extension : CM (complete main)

Duration : 1h 5mn

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 384 Kbps

Channel(s) : 6 channels

Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Bit depth : 16 bits

Video delay : 13h 0mn

Stream size : 181 MiB (3%)

 

Audio #2

ID : 129 (0x81)

Format : AC-3

Format/Info : Audio Coding 3

Mode extension : CM (complete main)

Duration : 1h 5mn

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 192 Kbps

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Channel positions : Front: L R

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Bit depth : 16 bits

Video delay : 13h 0mn

Stream size : 90.3 MiB (1%)

 

Text #1

ID : 224 (0xE0)-608-1

Format : EIA-608

Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport

Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1

Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)

 

Text #2

ID : 224 (0xE0)-1

Format : EIA-708

Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport

Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1

Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)

 

 

I think it only happens when I am using timer's recording two TV shows at once from two different channels. I also think the corruption happens in the beginning of the recording too because I recalled seeing green screen in the past with the problems.

 

Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

Edited September 23, 2010 by antdude

[hackbart]

Can you please use the 4.5 instead of the 4.2?

 

Christian

[antdude]

Can you please use the 4.5 instead of the 4.2?

 

Christian

Isn't v4.5 still a prerelease? Did it fix this problem? http://www.DVBViewer.tv/forum/forum/8-news-announcements/ shows it at RC1.