#9 Failures during TiVoDecode

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I've been using tivodecode for a while and it works great. But I recently cganged from Comcast to Verizon FIOS and I have occasionally been getting errors while decoding some .tivo files.

I have done some research and have determined the problem occurs when Verizon broadcasts its periodic EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM. I'm guessing that the format is being changed from HD to SD or from 16:9 to 4:3. But when the EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM ends, the MPG video is corrupted and will not continue. On one sample I have, the EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM comes on at 1:48:09 into the movie and runs until 1:49:00, but the movie duration only shows 22:51:50. When the EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM message completes, I get a black screen and the counter ticks up starting at 22:00:51 and continues until the end.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to fix it?

I looked for a newer version of tivodecode but the most recent I see is from 2007-08-28. I also downloaded the source hoping I could fix the problem myself but I guess I don't have the background in MPEG file formats to find the problem and fix it.

I can supply a .tivo file that has the EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM video embedded.

Any suggestions?