<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</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 Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Hoskin<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com">jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Sometimes simply remuxing the file will fix some of those problems.<br>
>>> myth creates its own entries for use by ff and rew in the database,<br>
>>> but the popcornhour will not use these. Making the transport stream<br>
>>> into a program stream may halp. I think the incantation is something<br>
>>> like:<br>
>>><br>
>>> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy original.mpg new.mpg<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Can you even put the H.264 video of Freeview HD into a MPEG-PS container?<br>
>> According to the VLC developers you can't:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html" target="_blank">http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html</a><br>
>> and<br>
>> <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/MPEG-TS#PS" target="_blank">http://wiki.videolan.org/MPEG-TS#PS</a><br>
><br>
> hmmm you have me there, although its hard to say whether those pages<br>
> are showing a limitation of the container per se, or a limitation of<br>
> vlc's implementation.<br>
<br>
</div>Looks like you & the VLC people were right:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats</a><br>
<br>
According to this a PS can take MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 and TS<br>
can take MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Part 2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264, other formats in<br>
private streams: VC-1, Dirac and a m2ts can take MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264,<br>
VC-1<br>
<br>
Maybe remuxing as a TS would fix it too? I dunno. For what its worth,<br>
when I look at a TS stream from TV in mplayer, the length and progress<br>
numbers are all fubar'd.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for all the feedback, not made a lot of progress today but did try the 2 different remuxing suggestions with not great results:<br><br>The mencoder command failed saying I was not able to specify copy for both flags, it suggested I use pcm and I needed to add the -o flag to specify which file was the output. It did complete with these changes but did not produce a playable file:<br>
mencoder -oac pcm -ovc copy 1001_20100107202800.mpg -o new-1001_20100107202800.mpg <br></div></div><br>The cvlc command worked but the resulting file had no audio stream, VLC reported only having the video stream when I played it back.<br>
<br>I am going to work through some of the other suggestions but will be heading away for a break with the family soon so will need to pick this up again in a couple of weeks. Keep the ideas coming. It is times like this that I think I would be better off just getting getting a Tivo (I already have a hacked Series 1 which works remarkably well but just not HD) and be done with it.<br>
<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Mark<br>