[mythtv-users] Mpeg files produced by MythTV using a PVR-150 or PVR-500, anything special about them?

Mike McMullin mwmcmlln at mnsi.net
Sat Sep 12 07:07:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 08:10 +0200, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Nicolas,
> 
> > I tried recently to copy Mpeg files produced by MythTV using my PVR-150 
> > and PVR-500 and while they do play in VLC, if I move the slider to play 
> > to skip part of the file VLC goes nuts and can't seem to be able to 
> > continue playing back the file.
> > 
> > (I have the latest version of VLC...)
> > 
> > Windows Media Player doesn't seem to have the proper codec so I can't 
> > play them.
> > 
> > The only program that seems to be able to handle these file is the media 
> > player that comes with Nero.
> > 
> > If I try to play these files using my PS3 and the upnp server if I fast 
> > forward it always take forever before it start playing it again after I 
> > have stopped fast forwarding...
> > 
> > Is this normal or is something messed up on my PC?
> 
> I experienced the same issues in the past. My guest would be that you 
> have VBI (Teletext) enabled in the recordings. This somehow gets 
> embedded in the mpeg2 file, making it unplayable in most players (except 
> mythfrontend). As soon as I turned off VBI, I had no more issues with my 
> recordings.

  I'm having reasonable success using GNOME MPlayer, there are no
problems skipping ahead, but the UI when put to full screen has a
"ghost" image from when before it was set to full screen.
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