Pixelation during library playback Apple TV

[keno]

I am seeing lots of pixelation while watching recorded OTA, and the sound is off.

I’m using the latest ore-release of the dvr server and the Apple TV beta.

I send the diagnostics for the video player over from my Apple TV just now.

[eric]

Please go to the DVR and select View Details or the recording. It will tell you if there were any issues with the recording.

You can read more about this feature here:

Improvements to recording statistics

Understanding why a recording is pixelated or has strange artifacts is an ongoing issue that has caused a lot of frustration for users over the years. Figuring out why this is happening has always been difficult and has involved guessing and fiddling. We've been logging [SNR] log messages for every HDHomerun-based recording for a while as we experimented with different ways to quantify if a recording had issues or not and how bad it was. We recently had a breakthrough that has allowed us to rep…