Recording wont play

[jcjefferies]

Occasionally I get recordings which wont play in NextPVR, no sound or video so looked in more detail at a recent one. I have enclosed the log of this file played on the client but it behaves the same on the server. This particular file is 1.4GB and the programme was 30 mins plus 3mins pre and post padding. However MediaInfo says it is 23 seconds long! The file plays normally in VLC and MPC but the first few seconds are blank before the channel welcome screen appears. The channel seems to start at 18:58:00 and the programme at 19:00:00 but the previous channel seems to have the data stream until about 18:57:30 which is about 30 seconds after the recording started. Is it going to be a problem for NextPVR that the channel has probably changed its ID during the padding period!

[Graham]

I'm guessing that this BBC3 or BBC4. This used to be a problem but I thought that it had gone away. Is it recorded from an aerial or from satellite?

[mvallevand]

It looks like you are using system decoders not naming them which only works when they are good. If you have it ticked, you might have to untick the option to only load the mapped audio decoders if it changes types

Martin

[jcjefferies]

Thanks Martin unchecking the box under decoders sorted the problem! I just have to skip forward at least 2 1/2 minutes and it plays normally in NextPVR. MPC-HC said video started 30 seconds in but I expect the start of the recording is a bit of a mess and different software responds differently. However I don't understand why I previously wasn't seeing video because Graphedit showed that NextPVR was rendering video but not sound. Several times I skipped forward several minutes, exited then resumed and skipped again but nothing.