Hi there.
Can someone recommend tools for cutting and encoding H.264 HDTV ?
For cutting, I'm currently using "h264ts cutter" but it doesn't seem to be accurate in cutting. Usually end up with 1 or 2 seconds more than what I have specified. Always must trial and error with the timing to get a precise cut. Looking for other alternative. Thank you!
As for encoding, I'm currently using "Handbrake" and "Xilisoft HD Video Converter".
Is there any other softwares which can convert H.264 HDTV into other formats? Prefer softwares with GUI rather than command lines.
Can you think of any reason why NPVR would not use the Timing.Info ADS stream on a file even though it's there?
I had a 3 1/2 hour recording tonight (the wife's Emmy Awards show) that acted like it had no Timing.Info. When she first started playing it (after the recording was complete), I noticed right away that the timeline looked a little odd: the end-time of the timeline was increasing and decreasing quite a bit as we started watching, just like it would with a pre-1.5.28 .ts file without the Timing.Info. I checked over the network, and the Timing.Info was definitely there and complete. It settled down as she got several minutes into the show, so no worries I thought.
Then at about 1 hour and 33 minutes into the show, both ends of the timeline reset to 00:00:00, and skipping was no longer possible. Again, this is common pre-1.5.28 behaviour, a minor glitch in the transport stream. I exited and restarted playback, but the timeline reset at the same spot.
Fortunately I had also recorded the second showing of the Emmy show, and that one was far enough along at this point that I was able to just skip to the same spot and let her finish watching the show skipping through all the lame speaches.
After the second recording completed, I started playing around with the Timing.Info. I copied it out to a temp file and then removed it from the problem recording, and found the timeline reset at exactly the same spot, and in general the playback acted just like it did when we played the file earlier.
After fiddling around a little more, I put the same Timing.Info back on the file, and found that it will now play all the way through the file without problems. The timeline is also now perfectly consistent right from the beginning of playback - the end time shown is 3:29:59 from the first moment on to the end of the file, it doesn't hunt around like it did when we first played it.
So it seems clear that NPVR was not using the Timing.Info data at first, even though it was there, but did use it later on during my testing.
At first I wanted to blame comskip, which was still running against the file at the time we had the problems; I was thinking that maybe the way it has the file open somehow prevented NPVR from reading the ADS. However, the second recording is clearly playing with the Timing.Info, yet comskip is still running against that file as I write this (comskip takes about 40 minutes for every hour of HD here).
I know this is a bit convoluted, but any thoughts at all on what could make it ignore or be unable to access the Timing.Info? It doesn't log anything about it when it reads the Timing.Info so it's hard for me to provide you any more detail.
I decided to give this a try after my TotalMedia crashed prematurely during a recording session with my TVWonder 750U USB card. Gateway laptop Windows 7 Home Premium.
So far I have the program installed and a successful channel scan. TV picture is fine but I have no volume. Is there a volume control I don't see in my interface? Or do I need a specific set of codecs as I haven't loaded this laptop up with much yet?
Secondly, there is like no program info in my guide. I didn't install XMLTV because I'm not clear on how to set it up with the program. That's a must for recording.
Finally the picture is nice but I'm also not sure what keystroke to use to change channels without going back to the menu. So no channel or volume control on-screen. What am I missing here?
I am using the postprocessing.bat file to postprocess my GBPVR recordings. [They are recorded in dvr-ms format, and then I convert them to mpg, run comskip and videoredo]. Is there any way to inform the GBPVR database about the new file, so that, for example - it only keeps the number of episodes that I've asked for of that particular programme?
Hello, i am new to GB PVR, I have installed it and am attempting to set it up, however i need a xmltv plug in? I read an earlier post saying that Zap2it is no longer working. What are you using, and if it is free, how do I set it up. Sorry for my ignorance...
Hello,
I fully understand that you don't support the MVP longer. However I have a question. I have all my old recordings (GBPVR) and new recordings (NPVR) in the .ts format. I noticed that I was able to view the recordings through the MVP only by renaming the file to .mpg. Is there a possibility to get the MVP to understand that without renaming the file?
This morning I found my 2:00am recording still showing as "Recording", and no other recordings had occurred since then. There apparently was a problem with the graph, as it created a zero-length file. However NRecord got itself stuck trying to kill the graph, and never recoverd. Here is the relevant bit of log, but the full log is attached.
Code:
2010-08-28 02:00:01.413 [DEBUG][6] About to start recording (5849): F:\Recordings\The PokerStars.net Big Game\The PokerStars.net Big Game_20100828_02000300.ts
2010-08-28 02:00:01.413 [INFO][6] DigitalRecorder.StartStream(F:\Recordings\The PokerStars.net Big Game\The PokerStars.net Big Game_20100828_02000300.ts)
2010-08-28 02:00:01.413 [INFO][6] Creating BDA graph
2010-08-28 02:00:01.420 [DEBUG][6] Using tuner WinTV HVR-950 BDA Tuner (1)
2010-08-28 02:00:01.436 [DEBUG][6] About to auto detect capture filter
2010-08-28 02:00:01.436 [DEBUG][6] Got capture filter.
2010-08-28 02:00:01.436 [DEBUG][6] Added capture filter
2010-08-28 02:00:01.444 [DEBUG][6] Connected Tuner to Capture
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] Graph filter list:
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] - NPVR TS Mon
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] - Capture
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] - Tuner
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] - Network Provider
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [INFO][6] About to start BDA graph
2010-08-28 02:00:01.459 [DEBUG][6] Starting graph...
2010-08-28 02:00:05.186 [DEBUG][6] About to tune BDA graph:
<tuning>
<type>ATSC</type>
<locator>
<physical_channel>11</physical_channel>
</locator>
<service_id>3</service_id>
<tsid>299</tsid>
<service_type>1</service_type>
</tuning>
2010-08-28 02:00:05.499 [DEBUG][6] locked=1, present=1, strength=-29, quality=78 (took 78ms to check)
2010-08-28 02:00:05.514 [INFO][6] DigitalRecorder.StartStream() allocated handle: 0x59
2010-08-28 02:00:05.514 [DEBUG][6] Temp at 8/28/2010 2:00:15 AM
2010-08-28 02:00:05.514 [DEBUG][6] Started recording (5849:F:\Recordings\The PokerStars.net Big Game\The PokerStars.net Big Game_20100828_02000300.ts)
2010-08-28 02:00:05.624 [DEBUG][6] No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\ParallelProcessing.bat
2010-08-28 03:00:00.352 [DEBUG][6] Stopping recording (5849). Past end time of recording.
2010-08-28 03:00:00.352 [INFO][6] DigitalRecorder.StopStream() handle: 89
2010-08-28 03:00:00.360 [INFO][6] No more streams active. Stopping device.
2010-08-28 03:00:00.360 [DEBUG][6] Graph stopping...
The "Graph stopping..." message is it... no "Graph stopped", no "Removing filter" messages. After this point in the log the only other thing it did was the EPG update, but did not "Reload the Recording Schedule". A half-dozen recordings where missed until I restarted the recording service a little before 10:00am.
I removed detail about a 30 minute recording that started at 2:00am as well, and ended normally at 2:30am just to keep the excerpt concise. It's in the attached full log of course.
Would it possible to add more logging detail to determine exactly why it couldn't stop the graph, and/or add some code to get it to recover from this condition instead of going into a coma?
By the way, a quick aside, it is a little confusing to have the stream handle reported in hex when it starts, but decimal when it ends (but yes, I do know that 0x59=89).
Just saw and download a new firmware release for the A-100.....in the release notes (last item) indicates that a browsing issue with PlayOn media server has been corrected......that issue is why I never could use PlayOn.....hoping this does fix it.
PlayOn just started another free trial this weekend......
