Some Good News for NZ Popcorn Hour Owners - All DVB-T channel recordings now have audio if you use Windows 7 Media Centre

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burtz

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#46491 7-Nov-2009 04:31

Downloaded and tested the October 30 2009 firmware update for the Popcorn hour A110, no mention of latm-aac audio in the list of 30 odd updates but gave it a try anyway on Prime, TV2 and TV1 recordings from Windows 7 Media centre (*.wtv files) and viola the audio is there !

davidcole

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#270786 7-Nov-2009 07:37

That sounds very strange. I'd not heard on it being in the beta firmware.

Wonder if only applicable A110 and not A100. I'll have to update my firmware now and try it out...

Goodnews if it's going though.

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davidcole

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#270792 7-Nov-2009 08:24

Are you using something to convert the wtv files to something the popcorn hour can support?

burtz

168 posts

Master Geek

#270800 7-Nov-2009 09:06

I have been experimenting with DVRMS to Mpeg but the files I am playing on the PH still have their .wtv extension and I thought all my conversions were failures.

I am not using ihome to play them but the Windows 7 Media Player that pops up on the menu screen of the popcorn hour.

PH recognises the audio as MPEG2 so perhaps they have converted...

jamespoo

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#270809 7-Nov-2009 09:57

just use ctberlink for tv it FTW

burtz

168 posts

Master Geek

#270855 7-Nov-2009 13:31

Looks like I jumped the gun so I have changed the thread title.

I went back and played some older DVB Viewer DVB-T recordings and there is no audio on anything but TV3 Dolby Digital so Windows 7 Media Centre and the media device homegroup sharing seems to be doing something, browsing a network share from the PH doesn't even show .wtv files, but using the media device that windows 7 puts on the PH menu allows files to play with audio.

davidcole

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#270878 7-Nov-2009 15:56

must be doing a transcode or something like that. Maybe watch the cpu of you w7 machine while playing and see if a task starts using cpu.

burtz

168 posts

Master Geek

#270881 7-Nov-2009 16:33

Yes, I think it is doing something on the fly as it appears to be streaming the recording to the PH, only the fast forward by 8x speed can be used, resume and skip by percentage are all unavailable. Still, after a long wait, I can watch recordings, other than TV3, on the Popcorn without conversion which takes 4E4!

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