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

[TJ Kolev]

In my setup Win7 Media Center reads the recordings through its "Library", to
which I've added the published Samba folder from the MythTV box. I was
surprised to find out that sym links are nicely resolved. I have a user job
that creates a folder structure with sym links with nice names, and this
what is exported through Samba. Works great, except for ch7.

tjk :)

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 09:20 -0600, Brent Bolin wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM, TJ Kolev <tjkolev at gmail.com> 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.
> > >
> > > 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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> > I can confirm this plays fine in Mythbuntu also.  Don't know about
> > your other question.
> >
> > Are you doing any transcoding or commflaging ?
> >
> >
> > Didn't even know windoze media could play myth recordings.
>
> I'm guessing here, but maybe Windows is using DLNA to read the files.
> As we all know, MythTV automatically sets itself up as a DLNA server (I
> know this because my Series 7 Samsung finds my BE without me having told
> it where to look) and the Windows Client (whatever he's using) is DLNA
> aware.
>
> Microsoft are part of the DLNA consortium, so i makes sense that they
> *might* support it.
>
>
> R
>
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