I am seeing lots of pixelation when trying to watch recordings from the AMC TV Everywhere channel.
I haven't noticed it on the NBCSN channel or FS1. Right now most of my recordings are from AMC though so I haven't had chance to test any of the others.
It also seems to be happening since I moved the DVR over to RPI 4. I mention that in case it may be related. I don't recall seeing the issue when I had the DVR on my computer.
Any ideas about what it may be?
Does the Log tab of the DVR show errors?
I assume you mean the main log? I went back and found the last recording and it looks clean.
I copied the section:
2020/03/30 16:42:05.626804 [DVR] Waiting 4h16m54.373276775s until next job 1585616340-116 Better Call Saul
2020/03/30 16:42:05.870931 [SYS] Created database snapshot: backup-20200330.164205
2020/03/30 16:42:15.973751 [IDX] Pruned 48 expired airings from USA-OTA33611 in 348.364602ms.
2020/03/30 16:42:16.050521 [IDX] Pruned 374 expired airings from X-TVE in 76.556469ms.
2020/03/30 20:59:00.017515 [DVR] Starting job 1585616340-116 Better Call Saul on ch=[6086]
2020/03/30 20:59:00.017758 [DVR] Waiting 59.982291298s until next job 1585616400-83 Prodigal Son
2020/03/30 20:59:04.284074 [TNR] Opened connection to TVE-YouTubeTV for ch6086 AMC
2020/03/30 20:59:04.427034 [DVR] Recording for job 1585616340-116 from TVE-YouTubeTV ch6086 into "TV/Better Call Saul/Better Call Saul S05E07 JMM 2020-03-30-2059.mpg" for 1h9m59.982122375s
2020/03/30 20:59:04.438874 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1585616340-116
2020/03/30 21:00:00.017509 [DVR] Starting job 1585616400-83 Prodigal Son on ch=[13.1]
2020/03/30 21:00:00.434331 [TNR] Opened connection to 1076A10B/0 for ch13.1 WTVT-DT
2020/03/30 21:00:00.532033 [DVR] Recording for job 1585616400-83 from 1076A10B ch13.1 into "TV/Prodigal Son/Prodigal Son S01E18 2020-03-30-2100.mpg" for 1h0m59.982250713s
2020/03/30 21:00:00.579469 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1585616400-83
2020/03/30 22:01:00.417054 [TNR] Closed connection to 1076A10B/0 for ch13.1 WTVT-DT
2020/03/30 22:01:00.433241 [SNR] Statistics for "TV/Prodigal Son/Prodigal Son S01E18 2020-03-30-2100.mpg": ss=89%,0%-91% snq=97%,0%-100% seq=99%,0%-100% bps=9995298,547456-15745376 pps=949,52-1496
2020/03/30 22:01:00.507464 [DVR] Finished job 1585616400-83 Prodigal Son
2020/03/30 22:01:00.527470 [DVR] Waiting 23h57m59.472575473s until next job 1585706340-120 FBI: Most Wanted
2020/03/30 22:01:00.562663 [DVR] Processing file-2132: TV/Prodigal Son/Prodigal Son S01E18 2020-03-30-2100.mpg
2020/03/30 22:01:01.363073 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 2132 (TV/Prodigal Son/Prodigal Son S01E18 2020-03-30-2100.mpg)
2020/03/30 22:09:04.338012 [TNR] Closed connection to TVE-YouTubeTV for ch6086 AMC
2020/03/30 22:09:04.361283 [DVR] Finished job 1585616340-116 Better Call Saul
I also noticed pixelation in a show I recorded tonight. I did not see any errors in the DVR log.
I am running on a Windows server so it's probably not your RPI.
I'm seeing the same thing with recordings of Better Call Saul on AMC TV Everywhere.
Most commonly pixelation issues with TVE channels are coming from the source stream. Other than RAM or disk corruption issues, your devices have less of an impact on potential recording issues.
Is anyone seeing this on recordings other than Better Call Saul? Or while watching live?
I will try to do some more testing today. So far I haven't watched the only other show I am recording on AMC at the moment which is Vagrant Queen. We just haven't gotten around to starting it yet.
I don't normally watch Live TV but I will do it at some point and let you know how it goes.
Yes, we noticed it in Better Call Saul - last week's episode and last night's episode had pixelation/portions of the image freezing. I assumed it was an issue from AMC's TVE stream. On our side other TVE channels/shows seem to be fine.
Also seeing it here with recording of Better Call Saul.
Yes I'm just turned on A Few Good Men using AMC-TVE and am seeing pixelation on the Apple TV. Happens on commercials as well.
How often is this Pixelation happening?
I have been watching about 10 min of A Few Good Men movie airing on AMC now, using Channels on my Shield, and also using the Philo app. No pixelation here including commercials.
It's random. I'll try it in the FuboTV app now.
FuboTV app was fine.
I was really bad on Better Call Saul this week. I believe it happened last week as well.
Yeah, my recording of Better Call Saul from Monday night was somewhat bad. It's very random when it happens and is usually only part of the overall image, not like the whole screen gets pixelated.
Unfortunately I haven't had time to sit and watch some live or the other recording I have from a different show. Hopefully I can tomorrow.
I'm seeing the pixelation on Better Call Saul as well as Killing Eve, both on AMC. I notice it seems to occur more at scene changes or when there's a lot of motion. I figured it was an issue on the AMC site.