Just a quick note, I am experiencing what I would call annoying glitches during playback of a DVRd show that uses the new commercial skip feature. It seems that a few frames plus associated audio get intermittently misplaced into the recording resulting in sound and split second visual of frames from some other part of the recording.
From what I can gather these are the symptoms:
Occurs after the first commercial break or later
Intermittent intervals, but at its worst, it happens rhythmically every two seconds
I’ve only noticed it on Fox recordings so far, but I record a LOT of shows from there
The full recording is present and otherwise plays as expected with no other telltale errors
Not sure this is something I can solve for. Just thought someone should know. Not sure logs would be useful in this case either since it seems like it could be an encoder issue.
Further investigation yields that this is definitely happening with most FOX recordings. I have not experienced it on any other channels recordings to date. Subnetworks of FOX 2.1, such as 2.2, 2.3 and so on, seem to record fine so far.
Played through Plex Media Player, they are almost unwatchable. Audio and video repeats for a second every few seconds. Watching on Plex Web or Roku minimizes the errors to blips in A/V output… almost as if those clients are better able to compensate for the errors.
Happened on CW for me but don’t think it is related to the commercial skip bc I don’t use it. I presummed transcoder changes don’t like something in the stream bc it happens every 2 seconds
I experienced the same issue on 2 shows one on CW and other on AMC. 1/2 way through the audio and video is glitched and cannot be watched. However all the other recordings worked perfectly. We need to have an option to keep the original recording while this is in beta so if it glitches we still have a clean copy. For now I decided to turn it off.
@nukem01 said:
I experienced the same issue on 2 shows one on CW and other on AMC. 1/2 way through the audio and video is glitched and cannot be watched. However all the other recordings worked perfectly. We need to have an option to keep the original recording while this is in beta so if it glitches we still have a clean copy. For now I decided to turn it off.
Have you tried using a different client? Some of my recordings that superglitch are watchable using a different client to watch them. The Roku seems to tackle them pretty well.
@nukem01 said:
I experienced the same issue on 2 shows one on CW and other on AMC. 1/2 way through the audio and video is glitched and cannot be watched. However all the other recordings worked perfectly. We need to have an option to keep the original recording while this is in beta so if it glitches we still have a clean copy. For now I decided to turn it off.
Have you tried using a different client? Some of my recordings that superglitch are watchable using a different client to watch them. The Roku seems to tackle them pretty well.
Tried Windows 10 app, Roku and VLC its the same. The recording itself seems to have glitched when it processed the commercial skip.
The Big Bang Theory tonight was pretty unwatchable. I bounced around with a few clients right after it finished processing… which took an abnormally long time this time.
Young Sheldon (also CBS) which followed was a little better… but not much. Gotham (FOX) was simultaneously recording as both of these shows, and appears to have fared better.
The Orville (FOX) was nearly flawless in execution compared to last week, so I no longer believe this is tied to network.
Question to the universe: Will two shows that begin and end at the same time try to comskip process simultaneously, or one after another? Could that be related?
The major issue this time happened with back to back half hour shows (garbled) that recorded next to a one hour show (nearly perfect), if that helps in analysis.
I have the same problems with some recordings. Its been going on for about two weeks. Not using comskip feature. As examples, The Orville was good half way through recording, then the odd video “bounce” and audio out of sync. Same issue with Blue Bloods. Other recordings on same channels were ok. My tuners are two HDHomeRun Connects.
