Most resilient digital mux? mpg/ts/ms ??

[martint123]

I'm suddenly getting short aborted recordings from UK DVB-T.
There is no indication there is anything wrong.
The recordings screen looks ok.
The logs show nothing until the expected end time and the regular quality/strength checks in the log show normal figures. (strength/quality are at their usual values).

The only way to know it has gone wrong is to play the file where they seem to stop after around 10 minutes or look at the file size which is correspondingly small.

My question is if it is a receiving glitch that is stopping received data for some reason which is the most resilient and most likely to recover ??
I'm currently using the old cyberlink mpeg mux that has served well over the years - is TS or DVR-MS any better and any downsides with them (I use PC clients as well as NMT).

[sub]

TS Mux is definitely the most resilient in terms of recording, because you'll get all the data delivered from card bit for bit. There is no alteration done to it, no real mux filter to lockup etc...but you can have problems playing back TS Mux files in GB-PVR if they have glitches in them. It will at least enable you to check what was delivered from your card, and will capture all channel data delivered.

[martint123]

OK thanks for that. I had suspected that reply I guess because your efforts are moving in that direction. I'll change over tomorrow and see how it goes.

I managed to catch the back end of a failed recording and there was a click in the audio, the video froze, the audio kept on going for a few seconds and then went on for about 10 seconds with audio on and off. So it sounds like the mux choked on something.

[mvallevand]

For your NMT, TS is the way to go too, it doesn't support DVR-MS and you will have much more control of the stream within the TS files (ie selecting different audio tracks etc).

Martin

[martint123]

For your NMT, TS is the way to go too, it doesn't support DVR-MS and you will have much more control of the stream within the TS files (ie selecting different audio tracks etc).

Martin

Of course - I'd forgotten that our HD broadcasts forced TS and gave the audio stream selections - just goes to show how transparent your and subs software is - many thanks both.

[martint123]

Just an update:- I've not noticed any more truncated recordings since going to TS MUX for DVB. I don't know if it may have been the broadcaster, the poor weather (snowing) or whatever - but it works fine now, so TS MUX it will stay.

Thanks all.