Hi
I have been trying to play back a Movie I bookmarked and record from my DishTV AerialBox T1020 on my media center PC
im using VLC player and I have found a play back issue when the Movie is split into two seperate files (due to the 32bit fat restriction) it claims both files are corrupt and arent being picked up as video files at all..
from what i know about video containers, it seems to me that the container file isn't writing / saving the video/audio information correctly for either files, and its not correctly closing the file with the correct container information once its reached the 4 gig limit.. so when I try to play it back on my PC using VLC player both files dont have the correct video information..
I am recording TV1 / TV2 / TV3 both in HD, thus the file size is larger than recording SD Prime or TVNZ7
heres a video info dump I did with a program called MediaInfo of file1 and file 2
000200.mpg
General #0
Count : 185
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : General
StreamKindID : 0
Inform : MPEG-1TS: 4.00 GiB
Count of video strea : 0
Count of audio strea : 0
Count of text stream : 0
Count of chapter str : 0
Complete name : D:\TV3\SS_SYS\Video\000200.mpg
Folder name : D:\TV3\SS_SYS\Video
File name : 000200
File extension : mpg
Format : MPEG-1TS
Format : MPEG-1 Transport
Format/Family : MPEG-1
Format/Extensions : ts
Codec : MPEG-1TS
Codec : MPEG-1 Transport
Codec/Family : MPEG-1
Codec/Extensions : ts
File size : 4294959104
File size : 4.00 GiB
File size : 4 GiB
File size : 4.0 GiB
File size : 4.00 GiB
File size : 4.000 GiB
000201.mpg
General #0
Count : 185
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : General
StreamKindID : 0
Inform : 3.14 GiB
Count of video strea : 0
Count of audio strea : 0
Count of text stream : 0
Count of chapter str : 0
Complete name : D:\TV3\SS_SYS\Video\0002001.mpg
Folder name : D:\TV3\SS_SYS\Video
File name : 0002001
File extension : mpg
File size : 3368550400
File size : 3.14 GiB
File size : 3 GiB
File size : 3.1 GiB
File size : 3.14 GiB
File size : 3.137 GiB
now if I do a shorter TV Program which doesn't split the file into two I get this, information again from MediaInfo
General #0
Count : 185
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : General
StreamKindID : 0
Inform : MPEG-4TS: 525 MiB, 29mn 56s
ID : 21
Count of video strea : 1
Count of audio strea : 1
Count of text stream : 0
Count of chapter str : 0
Codecs Video : AVC
Audio codecs : AAC
Complete name : D:\TV3\000100.mpg
Folder name : D:\TV3
File name : 000100
File extension : mpg
Format : MPEG-4TS
Format : MPEG-4 Transport
Format/Family : MPEG-4
Format/Extensions : m4t m4s ts tp trp
Codec : MPEG-4TS
Codec : MPEG-4 Transport
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec/Extensions : m4t m4s ts tp trp
File size : 550199296
File size : 525 MiB
File size : 525 MiB
File size : 525 MiB
File size : 525 MiB
File size : 524.7 MiB
PlayTime : 1796920
PlayTime : 29mn 56s
PlayTime : 29mn 56s 920ms
PlayTime : 29mn 56s
PlayTime : 00:29:56.920
Bit rate : 2449521
Bit rate : 2450 Kbps
as you can see that one writes the container correctly..
Kind regards,
Gordon.