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Bad Video Encoding

See original GitHub issue

Description

While using my recently installed system, I had an encoding issue with H.264. The bottom lines of the screen flickered green and white.

My Video settings are H.264, 30 fps, 2 Mb/s. Resetting the encoder to 5 Mb/s did not fix the issue. Also, changing to MJPEG did not fix the issue.

What’s the behavior that you expect?

Good encoding.

What’s happening instead?

Bad encoding

What are the steps to reproduce this behavior?

Open TinyPilot in Chrome
Type ls
See bad encoding at the bottom of the screen

The system itself was still usable. I could type and have changes occur, but they were mostly unreadable.

Screenshots

TinyPilot-2022-12-19T18_25_56 554Z

Logs

Please paste the URL you see when you run /opt/tinypilot/dev-scripts/dump-logs

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 9 months ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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billdenneycommented, Dec 21, 2022

After a bit of investigation, it could be related to pikvm/ustreamer#169 (which may be subsequently related to a kernel bug). Is there a simple way to update tinypilot to use ustreamer to 5.34 to test that fix?

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billdenneycommented, Dec 21, 2022

Thanks for the update!

I tested the new version of ustreamer, and it didn’t fix the issue. (I confirmed in the logs that it was updated.)

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