[mythtv-users] how to repair unplayable recordings?

Marco Nelissen marco.nelissen at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 13:58:48 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:48 AM, belcampo <belcampo at zonnet.nl> wrote:

> Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
>> I have some recordings that mythtv won't play. These files play just fine
>> with mplayer, xine and vlc,
>>
> What kind of file is it, MEPG-2 or h264, if h264 ProjectX won't do, you
> could remux with tsmuxer, sometime written as tsMuxeR.


It was an ATSC OTA recording, mpeg-2 TS. I ended up running it through
ffmpeg, since I already had it installed.
In case anyone runs in to a similar issue and is searching  the archive for
a solution:


>
>  but when I play them in mythtv, the
>
>> screen goes black briefly, then it goes back to the recordings list.
>> mythcommflag and mythtranscode don't like the recordings either.
>> mythcommflag says:
>> 2009-03-16 10:15:47.987 AFD Error: avformat err(-1) on av_open_input_file
>> call.
>> 2009-03-16 10:15:47.988 Couldn't open decoder for:
>> /mnt/store/1071_20090308220000.mpg
>> while mythtranscode says:
>> 2009-03-16 10:26:17.938 mpegts_read_header: could not find any PMT's
>> 2009-03-16 10:26:17.938 Couldn't open input file, error #-1
>>
>> Is there any way to 'fix' these recordings so that mythtv can play them?
>>
>>
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