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dvr-ms
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Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:39 amby ace315
Does anyone know how to play dvr-ms files from windows media center? I'd like to use my home computer as a dvr and then watch the shows using serviio, thanks,
Re: dvr-ms
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Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:20 amby Cerberus
ace315 wrote:Does anyone know how to play dvr-ms files from windows media center? I'd like to use my home computer as a dvr and then watch the shows using serviio, thanks,
dvr-ms files can only by played using window media center and most will be copy protected and will only play on the computer that they were made on.
your best bet to dop what you want is to try something like MYTHtv (
http://www.mythtv.org/ ) rather than microsft software as then it will be encoded in a sensible formnat that serviio can then stream.
Re: dvr-ms
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Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:40 amby zip
it should be possible in 0.5
Re: dvr-ms
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:52 amby posith
Cerberus wrote: dvr-ms files can only by played using window media center and most will be copy protected and will only play on the computer that they were made on.
zip wrote:it should be possible in 0.5
Impossible is nothing
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Re: dvr-ms
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Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:23 amby jcbyte
Please explain how dvr-ms files can be played on .5 as I am having no luck.
JC
Re: dvr-ms
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Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:32 amby scrambler
For some reason, DVR-MS files have to be transcoded, so you need to make sure that your profile includes the following transcode instructions
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" forceVTranscoding="true">
<Matches container="asf" vCodec="mpeg2video" />
</Video>
I dont know exactly why that is, and it would be nice if we did not have to because I loose the ability to skip forward in these files because of it and it is a major bummer with the commercials.
Re: dvr-ms
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Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:47 amby jcbyte
Where is this content included in the profile.xml file?
JC
Re: dvr-ms
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Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:03 amby jcbyte
Solved my problem by choosing the blu ray samsung player config.
JC
Re: dvr-ms
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Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:49 pmby scrambler
Yes that profile (in profiles.xml) already includes these instructions
Re: dvr-ms
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Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:25 amby patters
scrambler wrote:For some reason, DVR-MS files have to be transcoded
Logically dvr-ms files should be able to be remuxed and shouldn't have to be entirely re-encoded. This has never worked though. I was just looking through the list of open FFmpeg tickets when I found this which may be of interest. Someone has raised this particular issue so hopefully it should get fixed:
https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/1415