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Record format selections

Added by c t over 11 years ago

Hello.
I am using tvheadend with a Sundtek DVB-S2 usb stick.
There are two options available for the record format.
Pass through. - My Panasonic TV and PC software VLC can not play it right (video signal is encrypet and audio is off)
Matroska - My Panasonic TV and XBMC is working fine. My PC with software VLC pop up the error message "audio strem undf is not supported".

Are they any settings to store is compatible to play it in vlc? Which WIN-PC software can play it right?


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RE: Record format selections - Added by Prof Yaffle over 11 years ago

Passthrough (.ts) should be just as it was broadcast - so you only have something flagged as encrypted if that's what your broadcaster sent out.

mkv - that message means that you've got an audio stream that hasn't been tagged by your broadcaster with a particular language (including audio described). VLC seems sensitive to that.

I don't know what will play your streams (well, XBMC will, but that's perhaps overkill) - SMPlayer, maybe? - but mkvmerge GUI/mkvtoolnix will re-tag the offending audio stream, or strip it out entirely, and you could do that as a post-processing job to automate it. The .ts stream is more clumsy, in that you'll probably need to re-encode it to get rid of any broadcast errors: Handbrake will do that for you, but it'll take time.

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