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

[TJ Kolev]

Hi!

I started doing a lossless transcoding as a user job and the recording plays
fine now.

tjk :)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:07 AM, TJ Kolev <tjkolev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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