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Problem playing back recorded TV

Added by David Brown over 10 years ago

I am having a problem. I have set tvheadend up to record and save in MKV file format and it does this fine on my Ubuntu server. I can play it back in Plex via a Roku / NowTV box without problems. However, I've just got a media streamer with DLNA as it has a wired connection (unlike the Roku). The DLNA box says something along the lines of unsupported file format when I try to play recorded TV and on my PC I get the error "No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this."

Any way I can get round this to play on the DLNA player please? Many thanks


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RE: Problem playing back recorded TV - Added by Prof Yaffle over 10 years ago

Open the file in VLC (if it will) or mediainfo or similar. My money's on an untagged audio stream that's throwing the "undf" error. The only way I know of to fix it would be to use mkvtools or mkvmerge to either re-tag the stream or remove it - for example, it may well be an audio description stream that should really be tagged NAR, but you may not want it.

Regarding the the media streamer... does it support .mkv? Does it support whatever format your recording is in within that mkv file (MPEG-2, surely, but H.264, probably, and HD, high-profile H.264 - perhaps not if it's a cheap box).

The best solution is to use XBMC, as many people around here will tell you :)

RE: Problem playing back recorded TV - Added by David Brown over 10 years ago

Yup - it's a cheap box! I didn't want to spend a lot of money if the wireless connection wasn't the problem after all. I think I have solved it though - I have selected "Same as source (pass though) and it seems to be perfectly happy to record and play back on the PC / Roku and the new (and cheap) streaming box.

I like Plex, so going to another solution and the learning curve involved I'm sticking with it:)

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