How do I record as Mpeg rather than ts

[sadbrewer]

May I apologise in advance if I am being dense,I have used GBPVR on Windows XP with a Hauppauge Nova T card for a while with no problems at all,unfortunately the UK's
freeview retune is not allowing me to find the BBC channels,I decided to try NPVR,it seems to work fine and has picked up all the channels,but I can't seem to find out how to record MPEG as I did with GBPVR,rather than TS files,can anyone please help,
thanks

[sub]

NextPVR does record MPEG files. MPEG defines two file formats. "Program Stream" which are typically .mpg, and are designed mainly for DVDs (though renamed as .vob), and "Transport Stream" which are typically .ts files, which was designed for digital broadcast.

NextPVR always records .ts files, since these are the broadcast standard, and can be recorded without the need for manipulating the stream etc. Also .ts files allows for the new broadcast standards being used in lots of parts of the world, like H.264/HE-AAC/E-AC3 etc, which would not be possible .mpg files.

[pcostanza]

If for any reason you need to work with an mpeg rather than a .ts, you can simply change the extension to .mpg and it should work in most players.

[mvallevand]

If for any reason you need to work with an mpeg rather than a .ts, you can simply change the extension to .mpg and it should work in most players.

That might work for .vob but I certainly wouldn't recommend it for .ts. Besides any player that plays a .ts named .mpg would understand the .ts container anyway,

Martin

[pcostanza]

Your right Martin but I had an old version of Roxio that wouldn't even see my .ts files and renaming them to .mpg fixed that. Roxio finally updated things so .ts files were seen.

[sadbrewer]

thanks for the prompt replies guys,can I explain a little further,the pc with my Nova T card is in an office,what I've always done using GBPVR is to record the programs as Mpegs,put them on a memory stick and play them un a sumvision DVD/MPEG/Divx player in my living room,I've tried renaming the ts as mpg,but the player will not recognise the content.the ts files tend to be large and I think converting them using a another program will be too time consuming,is it possible to convert to mpg like GBPVR does to other formats,or is the best way to get GBPVR working again.Strangely(perhaps)putting both NPVR and GBPVR on the PC allows GBPVR to find the lost BBC channels,but makes recording unstable,sometimes it records fine,but other times it says it is recording but just produces a file of 0bytes,
any help you can give will be most appreciated,
cheers

[gEd]

you can configure your postprocessing.bat to quickly convert a .ts file to .mpeg. This usually results in a smaller file as it dumps the extra streams from the .ts file.
Note: You might need to then update the npvr database with the new .mpeg filename so that the recordings plugin can find the file. I am not sure if this is important to you or not.

try adding something like this to c:\Users\public\NPVR\postprocessing.bat. You have to change Progra~2 to Progra~1 depending on whether you are using 32 or 64 bit OS.

start /low /wait /min C:\Progra~2\NPVR\Other\ffmpeg.exe -y -i %1 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f vob "%~dpn1.mpg"

I don;t actively do this myself atm so I cannot give you a fully tested solution.

[Reddwarf]

try adding something like this to c:\Users\public\NPVR\postprocessing.bat. You have to change Progra~2 to Progra~1 depending on whether you are using 32 or 64 bit OS.

Should it not be "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\PostProcessing.bat" ?

[gEd]

yes, it should, :-P

[martint123]

If you really want to go back to GBPVR then your transmitter may have just changed frequencies as part of the changeover from analogue to digital.
It seems common that the BBC mux is most frequently missing.
If this is the case then you could either tweak teh dvb-t ini file for your area or do a scan for all countries/regions (I'd make a backup of the database first though )

As seen here... http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post420260