dvr-ms

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,

[Cerberus]

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.

[zip]

it should be possible in 0.5

[posith]

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.

it should be possible in 0.5

Impossible is nothing
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Please explain how dvr-ms files can be played on .5 as I am having no luck.

JC

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.

Where is this content included in the profile.xml file?

JC

Solved my problem by choosing the blu ray samsung player config.

JC

Yes that profile (in profiles.xml) already includes these instructions

[patters]

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