[mythtv-users] Chicago ABC OTA channel 7 recording not playing on Windows

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Mar 4 17:00:41 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:11:22AM -0600, TJ Kolev wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I only have a MythTV backend (on Ubuntu), and use Win 7 media center to
> watch the recordings. All is fine, except the recordings for WLS (ABC7, RF
> channel 44) won't play. The files play fine in xine on my separate Ubuntu
> desktop box. On Windows, media player just shows a black screen, Quicktime
> and the XviD play promptly crash.

   Install VLC box on windows and see what happens.

   Poke the file with mplayer and see what it spits out.

      mplayer -identify -v -ao null -vo null \
          -frames  0 /home/media/Video/2075_20100304090000.mpg

> 
> Does anyone has a clue what the issue is? I am assuming the mpeg format is
> not a flavor Windows likes. What tools can I use to find more information
> about the file, so I can see what's different between it and one for say
> NBC? Then perhaps I'll have an idea how to go about handling it.
> 
> Thank you.
> tjk :)

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