ts demux error: libdvbpsi error

[gossamer]

Hi, I have a fedora27 system with vlc 3.0.0-rc2 and libdvbpsi.so.10 and having trouble with playing streaming video from my HD HomeRun tuner. This problem has existed for at least a year, through fedora25, 26, and 27 upgrades. My tuner works fine with VLC on windows. I've also worked extensively with the HD HomeRun people and they believe it's a vlc/fedora problem.

The problem I'm having is with video dropout throughout the entire time the streaming video channel is being viewed/played. Below are the error messages printed on the terminal where hdhomerun is started. There is audio, but it is also momentarily interrupted when the video drops out.

Please let me know what further information I can provide to help troubleshoot this.

[000055be5d459a30] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[000055be5d511350] main audio output error: invalid audio channels count
[00007f646c038180] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f646c015360] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
[00007f646c015360] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
[00007f646c015360] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
[00007f646c015360] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
[000055be5d511350] vlcpulse audio output error: digital pass-through stream connection failure: Not supported
[000055be5d511350] main audio output error: module not functional
[00007f646c038180] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f646c015360] ts demux error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_40
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_40
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[mpeg2video @ 0x7f646002eae0] 00 motion_type at 103 27
[mpeg2video @ 0x7f646002eae0] Warning MVs not available

[InTheWings]

To help you, we need messages, to completely understand what your problems is.
To fix this, please be sure before you start the playback to:

1. Open: Tools -> Messages.
2. Set Verbosity to 2
3. Start playback to reproduce your issue
4. Save text in a file or copy into clipboard
5. Then paste the full resulting log here between [​code]and[​/code] (or use Pastebin.com if it's too long)

Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

[gossamer]

Thanks very much for your offer to help. I've now tried this on multiple Linux PCs, both with fedora27, and the problem occurs on both. For this reason I also don't think it's a video driver problem. I've let VLC run for a few minutes then saved the debug output. It's a lot of "ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0" continually repeating. When the dropout occurs, "main warning: buffer too late (-982656 us): dropped" is printed repeatedly. The dropout period is only momentary.

$ rpm -qav|grep -E 'vlc|libdvb'
vlc-3.0.0-0.44.git20171215rc2.fc27.x86_64
vlc-core-3.0.0-0.44.git20171215rc2.fc27.x86_64
libdvbpsi-1.3.1-3.fc27.x86_64

The log file is 90k, so I've pasted the most important lines and will link to the full debug file on dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8fw6lb1q78jzp ... 2.txt?dl=0

ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0x7 (pid=49)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x6 instead of 0x5 (pid=53)
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
main warning: playback too early (-96087): down-sampling
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 100 ms)
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
main warning: buffer too late (-982656 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-950836 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-919037 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-887306 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-855472 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-823607 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-791733 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-727870 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-695999 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-664148 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-632275 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-600400 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-568530 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-536672 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-504801 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-472923 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-441050 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-409155 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-377229 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-345301 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-313372 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-281442 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-249514 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-217586 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-185659 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-153727 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-121802 us): dropped
main warning: buffer too late (-89879 us): dropped
main debug: inserting 59920 zeroes
pulse debug: underflow
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xc instead of 0x6 (pid=49)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x0 instead of 0xe (pid=52)
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
main warning: playback way too early (-128087): playing silence
main debug: inserting 6148 zeroes
ts error: libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate (received 0, expected 1) for PID 0

[gossamer]

Hi, does anyone have any further ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

[gossamer]

No one has enough familiarity with vlc to help troubleshoot this?

[gossamer]

Just checking again - anyone familiar with my problem? How do I troubleshoot this? Could this be an ffmpeg problem?

[InTheWings]

Create a file/dump from your tuner and check on it.

[gossamer]

I've actually just done that. Are you able to review the content of this file and use it to help determine what's wrong? This is a 60s video that shows the audio/video dropout as I described.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vuic9hosd0dj2p/ch33-2?dl=0

[elminuto]

I had the same error. I installed the libdvdcss2 on my ubuntu and after that the DVD ran without problem. I hope this will still help anyone.

[gossamer]

I had the same error. I installed the libdvdcss2 on my ubuntu and after that the DVD ran without problem. I hope this will still help anyone.

This mostly fixed my problem too. There's still occasional dropout, but it could be related to the antenna itself. After nearly two years of dealing with dropout, working with the HD HomeRun people, as well as the VideoLAN people without any clues or solutions, your comment helped fix it.

I'm surprised the Fedora folks who packaged the hdhomerun package didn't require libdvdcss2 as a dependency.

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$ rpm -qi libdvdcss Name : libdvdcss Version : 1.4.1 Release : 2.fc28.remi Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Sun 07 Oct 2018 07:42:17 PM EDT Group : Unspecified Size : 176770 License : GPLv2+ Signature : RSA/SHA256, Mon 26 Feb 2018 02:58:05 AM EST, Key ID 555097595f11735a Source RPM : libdvdcss-1.4.1-2.fc28.remi.src.rpm Build Date : Mon 26 Feb 2018 02:57:35 AM EST Build Host : builder.remirepo.net Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : https://blog.remirepo.net/ Vendor : Remi Collet URL : http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/ Bug URL : https://forum.remirepo.net/ Summary : A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption Description : This is a portable abstraction library for DVD decryption which is used by the VideoLAN project, a full MPEG2 client/server solution. You will need to install this package in order to have encrypted DVD playback with the VideoLAN client and the Xine navigation plugin.