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Problem Playing VDR recordings in MEDIA/VIDEO

Started by jefigo, May 15, 2008, 08:41:59 AM

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jefigo

Hi all,
with upgrading to 0710 RC1 (64bit) i switched from mythtv to vdr. I live in germany and use dvb-s. The configuration was very easy and watching tv is much better than it was with mythtv.
My Problem is that when i am watching a vdr recording using the linuxmce orbiter (media/video) it stops with the ending of the first xxx.vdr file.
Is there anything i didn't recognize during configuration?

thanks

Jens  8)
ABIT AN-M2
Athlon 4850e (2x 2500 MHz)
WIN TV NOVA-S PLUS
2 GB DDR2-800
2 SATA-II 500GB Samsung
Sharp AQUOS LC46X20E

jefigo

Hi all,
i found a way to fix the problem. I copy the .vdr files (normaly 001.vdr and 002.vdr) to /home/public/data/videos/ using the cat command.

Example:
  cat 00*.vdr > /home/public/data/videos/title_of_recording.vdr

After this i delete the old recording in VDR. Unfortunately the text information about the recording is lost.
But my children can watch the whole recording using the media library.
ABIT AN-M2
Athlon 4850e (2x 2500 MHz)
WIN TV NOVA-S PLUS
2 GB DDR2-800
2 SATA-II 500GB Samsung
Sharp AQUOS LC46X20E

cirion

There is a VDR plugin that can transcode recordings to other formats like AVI wich should play better in LinuxMCE...
If it could do this automatically it would be even better...

http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Transfron-plugin

colinjones

Ping Totallymaxed on this - I'm pretty sure it isn't supposed to be like that. I remember seeing the same thing ages ago (when I first tried VDR for recording) and thinking "that's silly!" But subsequently, saw that they appeared somewhere else and played correctly, but can't remember how it worked.... Andrew will know...