pyTivo Discussion Forum

[Chris]

Most movies in my collection work great. I have a movie that just gets video no audio. I thought it was ffmpeg. But when I use ffplay it works fine and has the audio.

I have an S3. Here are my server settings:

[Server]
ffmpeg_prams = -vcodec mpeg2video -b %(video_br)s -maxrate %(max_video_br)s -bufsize %(buff_size)s %(aspect_ratio)s -comment pyTivo.py %(audio_codec)s -ab %(audio_br)s -f vob -
ffmpeg = d:\pytivo\plugins\video\ffmpeg_mp2.exe
video_br = 16Mi
port = 9032
width = 1280
beacon = 255.255.255.255
debug = false
height = 720
audio_br = 448k
hack83=True

Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[dlfl]

[Chris]

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 29.97 (30000/1001) -> 59.94 (60000/1001)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'os.mpg':
Duration: 00:05:29.2, start: 0.194500, bitrate: 98084 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 9800 kb/s, 59.94 fps(r)
Stream #0.1[0x81]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s

Here is the information. Thoughts? Thanks.

[Chris]

I did a little more research on the frame rate error and tried adding -r 24 to my parameter line. It made no difference. Thoughts? Thanks.

[wgw]

That looks like standard DVD format. The S3 should be able to play it unless there is something wrong with the audio stream. And it does not appear that there are additional audio or subtitle streams getting in the way.

As a test, you can force pyTivo to transcode it by adding MAX_AUDIO_BR=384K to your server section.

Or you could try re-encoding the audio before sending it to the tivo.

ffmpeg -i os.mpg -vcodec copy -acodec ac3 -ab 384k -f vob out.mpg

[wgw]

I just noticed that you have Hack83=true in your conf file. If you are using the subfolder version, it does not support the ffmpeg_prams you are using.

Comment out your ffmpeg_prams and see what happens.