VLC could not play the file either. But rather than black screen it showed the first frame, and stopped there. Would not play anything. I also tried Media Player Classic, and that one was able to play it.<br><br>Below is the output of the suggested mplayer command.<br>
<br>tjk :)<br><br>=========================<br>MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team<br>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)<br>CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1<br>
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.<br>get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/codecs.conf'<br>Reading /home/tjkolev/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory<br>
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory<br>Using built-in default codecs.conf.<br>Configuration: --enable-runtime-cpudetection --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --mandir=/usr/share/man --win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32 --enable-largefiles --disable-libdvdcss-internal --enable-smb --enable-ftp --enable-cdparanoia --enable-radio --enable-lirc --enable-joystick --enable-xf86keysym --disable-tremor-internal --enable-liba52 --enable-musepack --enable-speex --enable-libvorbis --enable-mad --enable-mp3lib --enable-theora --enable-libdv --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-tv-v4l2 --enable-alsa --enable-ossaudio --enable-esd --enable-arts --enable-pulse --enable-nas --enable-xinerama --enable-menu --enable-xv --enable-vm --enable-gl --enable-xmga --enable-mga --enable-3dfx --enable-tdfxfb --enable-sdl --enable-aa --enable-caca --enable-dxr3 --enable-xvmc --with-xvmclib=XvMCW --enable-ggi --enable-fbdev --enable-freetype --enable-gif --enable-png --enable-jpeg --enable-liblzo --enable-fribidi --enable-ladspa --enable-gui --enable-mencoder<br>
CommandLine: '-identify' '-v' '-ao' 'null' '-vo' 'null' '-frames' '0' '1071_20100302230000.mpg'<br>init_freetype<br>get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/font/font.desc'<br>
font: can't open file: /home/tjkolev/.mplayer/font/font.desc<br>font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc<br>Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay<br>get_path('fonts') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/fonts'<br>
Using nanosleep() timing<br>get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/input.conf'<br>Can't open input config file /home/tjkolev/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory<br>Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf<br>
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 81 binds<br>Setting up LIRC support...<br>get_path('1071_20100302230000.mpg.conf') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/1071_20100302230000.mpg.conf'<br><br>Playing 1071_20100302230000.mpg.<br>
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/sub/'<br>[file] File size is 425334772 bytes<br>STREAM: [file] 1071_20100302230000.mpg<br>STREAM: Description: File<br>STREAM: Author: Albeu<br>STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)<br>
LAVF_check: MPEG2 transport stream format<br>Checking for YUV4MPEG2<br>ASF_check: not ASF guid!<br>Checking for NuppelVideo<br>Checking for REAL<br>Checking for SMJPEG<br>Searching demuxer type for filename 1071_20100302230000.mpg ext: .mpg<br>
Checking for Nullsoft Streaming Video<br>Checking for MOV<br>Checking for VIVO<br>header block 1 size: 64<br>Checking for PVA<br>Checking for MPEG-TS...<br>TRIED UP TO POSITION 0, FOUND 47, packet_size= 188, SEEMS A TS? 1<br>
GOOD CC: 30, BAD CC: 0<br>TS file format detected.<br>DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -2,<br>Checking for MPEG-TS...<br>TRIED UP TO POSITION 0, FOUND 47, packet_size= 188, SEEMS A TS? 1<br>GOOD CC: 30, BAD CC: 0<br>
PROBING UP TO 0, PROG: 0<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 0<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 0<br>
SKIP: 0+1, TID: 2, TLEN: 94, COLLECTED: 184<br>FILL_PMT(prog=1), PMT_len: 184, IS_START: 64, TS_PID: 48, SIZE=184, M=0, ES_CNT=0, IDX=0, PMT_PTR=0x111a590<br>PROG DESCR, TAG=87, LEN=16(10)<br>PROG DESCR, TAG=87, LEN=16(10)<br>
ERROR, descriptor len is too long, skipping<br>...descr id: 0x11, len=1<br>...descr id: 0x10, len=6<br>...descr id: 0x6, len=1<br>...descr id: 0x86, len=7<br>PARSE_PMT(1 INDEX 0), STREAM: 0, FOUND pid=0x31 (49), type=0x10000002, ES_DESCR_LENGTH: 23, bytes left: 29<br>
...descr id: 0x5, len=4<br>...descr id: 0x81, len=10<br>...descr id: 0xa, len=4<br>Language Descriptor: eng<br>PARSE_PMT(1 INDEX 1), STREAM: 1, FOUND pid=0x34 (52), type=0x2000, ES_DESCR_LENGTH: 24, bytes left: 0<br>----------------------------<br>
COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 184<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>
ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br><br>....<br><br>#Then here and there I see this:<br><br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 184<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>
PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br><br>...<br><br>#And this the end starting at line 10818<br>VIDEO MPEG2(pid=49) AUDIO A52(pid=52) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1<br>
==> Found video stream: 0<br>ID_VIDEO_ID=49<br> <br>ADDED VIDEO PID 49, type: 10000002 stream n. 0
<br>==> Found audio stream: 0<br>ID_AUDIO_ID=52<br> <br>ADDED AUDIO PID 52, type: 2000 stream n. 0
<br>Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 0), video: 10000002(pid 0)...POS=752, PROBE=0<br>Searching for sequence header... COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 0<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>
PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 184<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>
PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 0<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 2, TLEN: 94, COLLECTED: 184<br>FILL_PMT(prog=1), PMT_len: 184, IS_START: 64, TS_PID: 48, SIZE=184, M=0, ES_CNT=2, IDX=0, PMT_PTR=0x111a590<br>
PROG DESCR, TAG=87, LEN=16(10)<br>PROG DESCR, TAG=87, LEN=16(10)<br>ERROR, descriptor len is too long, skipping<br>...descr id: 0x11, len=1<br>...descr id: 0x10, len=6<br>...descr id: 0x6, len=1<br>...descr id: 0x86, len=7<br>
PARSE_PMT(1 INDEX 0), STREAM: 0, FOUND pid=0x31 (49), type=0x10000002, ES_DESCR_LENGTH: 23, bytes left: 29<br>...descr id: 0x5, len=4<br>...descr id: 0x81, len=10<br>...descr id: 0xa, len=4<br>Language Descriptor: eng<br>
PARSE_PMT(1 INDEX 1), STREAM: 1, FOUND pid=0x34 (52), type=0x2000, ES_DESCR_LENGTH: 24, bytes left: 0<br>----------------------------<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 184<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>
PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 184<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>
PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>COLLECT_SECTION, start: 64, size: 184, collected: 184<br>SKIP: 0+1, TID: 0, TLEN: 13, COLLECTED: 184<br>PARSE_PAT: section_len: 13, section 0/0<br>PROG: 1 (1-th of 1), PMT: 48<br>OK!<br>VIDEO: MPEG2 1280x720 (aspect 3) 59.940 fps 17994.4 kbps (2249.3 kbyte/s)<br>
[V] filefmt:29 fourcc:0x10000002 size:1280x720 fps:59.94 ftime:=0.0167<br>get_path('sub/') -> '/home/tjkolev/.mplayer/sub/'<br>ID_FILENAME=1071_20100302230000.mpg<br>ID_DEMUXER=mpegts<br>ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002<br>
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=17994400<br>ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280<br>ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=720<br>ID_VIDEO_FPS=59.940<br>ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000<br>ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192<br>ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0<br>ID_AUDIO_RATE=0<br>ID_AUDIO_NCH=0<br>ID_LENGTH=189.10<br>
==========================================================================<br>Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough<br>VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)<br>Trying filter chain: vo<br>
VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)<br>Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.<br>VO Config (1280x720->1280x720,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x4D504553)<br>VO: [null] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Mpeg PES <br>
VO: Description: Null video output<br>VO: Author: Aaron Holtzman <<a href="mailto:aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca">aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca</a>><br>Selected video codec: [mpegpes] vfm: mpegpes (MPEG-PES output (.mpg or DXR3/IVTV/DVB/V4L2 card))<br>
==========================================================================<br>ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpegpes<br>==========================================================================<br>Forced audio codec: mad<br>Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52<br>
dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer.<br>dec_audio: Allocating 6144 + 65536 = 71680 bytes for output buffer.<br>AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s<br>A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x2A<br>A52 flags after a52_frame: 0xA<br>
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)<br>ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=384000<br>ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000<br>ID_AUDIO_NCH=2<br>Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)<br>==========================================================================<br>
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...<br>[libaf] Adding filter dummy <br>[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le<br>[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le<br>AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)<br>
AO: Description: Null audio output<br>AO: Author: Tobias Diedrich <<a href="mailto:ranma%2Bmplayer@tdiedrich.de">ranma+mplayer@tdiedrich.de</a>><br>Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...<br>
[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le<br>[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le<br>ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52<br>Starting playback...<br><br>Uninit audio filters...<br>[libaf] Removing filter dummy <br>Uninit audio: liba52<br>
Uninit video: mpegpes<br>vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..<br><br>Exiting... (End of file)<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:11:22AM -0600, TJ Kolev wrote:<br>
> Greetings,<br>
><br>
> I only have a MythTV backend (on Ubuntu), and use Win 7 media center to<br>
> watch the recordings. All is fine, except the recordings for WLS (ABC7, RF<br>
> channel 44) won't play. The files play fine in xine on my separate Ubuntu<br>
> desktop box. On Windows, media player just shows a black screen, Quicktime<br>
> and the XviD play promptly crash.<br>
<br>
</div> Install VLC box on windows and see what happens.<br>
<br>
Poke the file with mplayer and see what it spits out.<br>
<br>
mplayer -identify -v -ao null -vo null \<br>
-frames 0 /home/media/Video/2075_20100304090000.mpg<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Does anyone has a clue what the issue is? I am assuming the mpeg format is<br>
> not a flavor Windows likes. What tools can I use to find more information<br>
> about the file, so I can see what's different between it and one for say<br>
> NBC? Then perhaps I'll have an idea how to go about handling it.<br>
><br>
> Thank you.<br>
> tjk :)<br>
<br>
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