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Leanfront renderer error
I'm running Android Leanfront V0-198 and I was watching a program that
was recorded from a secondary stream of one of the major local
broadcasters. The channel is 5.3 and the program was originally 16:9 HD
but on reruns on 5.3 is reduced letterbox where I use the zoom to 133%
to make it full screen on a 16.9 TV.

I've been viewing this and other programs from this channel for weeks
and today I had a failure message on the screen. I've attached a jpg
screenshot of it but the text is:

Playback Failed.

Error Occurred in a Renerer.

FfmpegAudioRenderer error, index=2,format=Format (1/84,

null,null,audio/ac3,null, -1, en[-1.-1.-1.0],[2,48000]),

format_supported=YES

Exit   Continue

I could not get Leanfront to advance past the error, so I assumed it 
was the file so I tried to play it at the point of failure on
mythfrontend for android and it worked fine.  I went back to leanfront
and forced it to stop with Settings and then tried to play it from the
start and got the same error.

I restarted the Shield TV and it work fine the next time with
leanfront.  This appears to be a one time error that left something
cached that it couldn't push thru and the restart of the Shield TV fixed.

The capture card is a Hauppauge WInTV quadHD and the signal is generally
100% so I don't think it was a signal problem. I didn't see any
anomalies when I played it on mythfrontend.

If I can find something that is repeatable, I'll run some logging with adb.

Jim A
Re: Leanfront renderer error [ In reply to ]
On 9/23/20 11:02 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> I'm running Android Leanfront V0-198 and I was watching a program that
> was recorded from a secondary stream of one of the major local
> broadcasters. The channel is 5.3 and the program was originally 16:9
> HD but on reruns on 5.3 is reduced letterbox where I use the zoom to
> 133% to make it full screen on a 16.9 TV.
>
> I've been viewing this and other programs from this channel for weeks
> and today I had a failure message on the screen. I've attached a jpg
> screenshot of it but the text is:
>
> Playback Failed.
>
> Error Occurred in a Renerer.
>
> FfmpegAudioRenderer error, index=2,format=Format (1/84,
>
> null,null,audio/ac3,null, -1, en[-1.-1.-1.0],[2,48000]),
>
> format_supported=YES
>
> Exit   Continue
>
> I could not get Leanfront to advance past the error, so I assumed it 
> was the file so I tried to play it at the point of failure on
> mythfrontend for android and it worked fine.  I went back to leanfront
> and forced it to stop with Settings and then tried to play it from the
> start and got the same error.
>
> I restarted the Shield TV and it work fine the next time with
> leanfront.  This appears to be a one time error that left something
> cached that it couldn't push thru and the restart of the Shield TV fixed.
>
> The capture card is a Hauppauge WInTV quadHD and the signal is
> generally 100% so I don't think it was a signal problem. I didn't see
> any anomalies when I played it on mythfrontend.
>
> If I can find something that is repeatable, I'll run some logging with
> adb.
>
> Jim A
>
>
As it so happens, I made a change last Friday to handle this type of
audio error. I have now posted the latest release with this change
(leanfront-v0-199-g90b99cf)

The change will try to switch to another audio track when this happens.
If none is available it will disable audio, so the video will go silent.
You can try to reactivate audio by using the audio track (icon of an
ear) in the player.

Peter


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Re: Leanfront renderer error [ In reply to ]
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 11:44 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 9/23/20 11:02 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> > I'm running Android Leanfront V0-198 and I was watching a program that
> > was recorded from a secondary stream of one of the major local
> > broadcasters. The channel is 5.3 and the program was originally 16:9
> > HD but on reruns on 5.3 is reduced letterbox where I use the zoom to
> > 133% to make it full screen on a 16.9 TV.
> >
> > I've been viewing this and other programs from this channel for weeks
> > and today I had a failure message on the screen. I've attached a jpg
> > screenshot of it but the text is:
> >
> > Playback Failed.
> >
> > Error Occurred in a Renerer.
> >
> > FfmpegAudioRenderer error, index=2,format=Format (1/84,
> >
> > null,null,audio/ac3,null, -1, en[-1.-1.-1.0],[2,48000]),
> >
> > format_supported=YES
> >
> > Exit Continue
> >
> > I could not get Leanfront to advance past the error, so I assumed it
> > was the file so I tried to play it at the point of failure on
> > mythfrontend for android and it worked fine. I went back to leanfront
> > and forced it to stop with Settings and then tried to play it from the
> > start and got the same error.
> >
> > I restarted the Shield TV and it work fine the next time with
> > leanfront. This appears to be a one time error that left something
> > cached that it couldn't push thru and the restart of the Shield TV fixed.
> >
> > The capture card is a Hauppauge WInTV quadHD and the signal is
> > generally 100% so I don't think it was a signal problem. I didn't see
> > any anomalies when I played it on mythfrontend.
> >
> > If I can find something that is repeatable, I'll run some logging with
> > adb.
> >
> > Jim A
> >
> >
> As it so happens, I made a change last Friday to handle this type of
> audio error. I have now posted the latest release with this change
> (leanfront-v0-199-g90b99cf)
>
> The change will try to switch to another audio track when this happens.
> If none is available it will disable audio, so the video will go silent.
> You can try to reactivate audio by using the audio track (icon of an
> ear) in the player.
>
> Peter
>

Great. I now have v0-199 installed.
It seems to be working fine

Jim A
Re: Leanfront renderer error [ In reply to ]
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:11 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 11:44 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9/23/20 11:02 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>> > I'm running Android Leanfront V0-198 and I was watching a program that
>> > was recorded from a secondary stream of one of the major local
>> > broadcasters. The channel is 5.3 and the program was originally 16:9
>> > HD but on reruns on 5.3 is reduced letterbox where I use the zoom to
>> > 133% to make it full screen on a 16.9 TV.
>> >
>> > I've been viewing this and other programs from this channel for weeks
>> > and today I had a failure message on the screen. I've attached a jpg
>> > screenshot of it but the text is:
>> >
>> > Playback Failed.
>> >
>> > Error Occurred in a Renerer.
>> >
>> > FfmpegAudioRenderer error, index=2,format=Format (1/84,
>> >
>> > null,null,audio/ac3,null, -1, en[-1.-1.-1.0],[2,48000]),
>> >
>> > format_supported=YES
>> >
>> > Exit Continue
>> >
>> > I could not get Leanfront to advance past the error, so I assumed it
>> > was the file so I tried to play it at the point of failure on
>> > mythfrontend for android and it worked fine. I went back to leanfront
>> > and forced it to stop with Settings and then tried to play it from the
>> > start and got the same error.
>> >
>> > I restarted the Shield TV and it work fine the next time with
>> > leanfront. This appears to be a one time error that left something
>> > cached that it couldn't push thru and the restart of the Shield TV
>> fixed.
>> >
>> > The capture card is a Hauppauge WInTV quadHD and the signal is
>> > generally 100% so I don't think it was a signal problem. I didn't see
>> > any anomalies when I played it on mythfrontend.
>> >
>> > If I can find something that is repeatable, I'll run some logging with
>> > adb.
>> >
>> > Jim A
>> >
>> >
>> As it so happens, I made a change last Friday to handle this type of
>> audio error. I have now posted the latest release with this change
>> (leanfront-v0-199-g90b99cf)
>>
>> The change will try to switch to another audio track when this happens.
>> If none is available it will disable audio, so the video will go silent.
>> You can try to reactivate audio by using the audio track (icon of an
>> ear) in the player.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Great. I now have v0-199 installed.
> It seems to be working fine
>
> Jim A
>

Peter - there has been a long standing issue (well, it was long ago and I
quit trying to circumvent it long ago as well) with playback of HDPVR1212
recorded items when a SPDIF connection was used and commercials has
different enconding than the regular programming on the channel. Would
this same thing apply and could it be ported to the regular FE code (if it
has not already been fixed)?
Re: Leanfront renderer error [ In reply to ]
On 9/23/20 12:29 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> Peter - there has been a long standing issue (well, it was long ago
> and I quit trying to circumvent it long ago as well) with playback of
> HDPVR1212 recorded items when a SPDIF connection was used and
> commercials has different enconding than the regular programming on
> the channel.  Would this same thing apply and could it be ported to
> the regular FE code (if it has not already been fixed)?
>
I don't know anything about that. If you can supply a sample I will try
it out and lt you know.

Peter
Re: Leanfront renderer error [ In reply to ]
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:55 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/23/20 12:29 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
> Peter - there has been a long standing issue (well, it was long ago and I
> quit trying to circumvent it long ago as well) with playback of HDPVR1212
> recorded items when a SPDIF connection was used and commercials has
> different enconding than the regular programming on the channel. Would
> this same thing apply and could it be ported to the regular FE code (if it
> has not already been fixed)?
>
> I don't know anything about that. If you can supply a sample I will try it
> out and lt you know.
>
> Peter
>
Sorry - that has been many years. So many that I have long since quit
trying to record from the device over SPDIF and just let stereo be the norm.

It is not important as I have retired my 1212(s) a few years back anyhow.
It was more of a "just wondering" question - thanks.