Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (5 Viewers)

[mastyman]

yep, but thats not the issue im seeing

added a couple screen shots to illustrate that thread in FTR TV Plugin.

 

[Bleazle]

I think it is (unless we're talking at cross purposes) - I have replied to your reply - will stop covering this here because I can see your replies and you can see mine in the 4TR forum

 

[mastyman]

all good i will test what you said and post back their

I see you use Comskip in your signature, does that work well with DVB-S Freeview?

 

[Bleazle]

all good i will test what you said and post back their

Sweet - good for others to know as well

I see you use Comskip in your signature, does that work well with DVB-S Freeview?

Yeah it's great - it's not 100% accurate but it's pretty damn good (I'd say about 90% of the time Comskip gets it right). Unfortunately when you click "skip" you have no way of knowing how far you've skipped - it used to show an OSD but something changed in 4TR or TV Server a while ago and now it doesn't I've asked for it to be re-instated a few times on the 4TR forum but I don't think anyone else is pushing for it so I don't know if it'll be sorted in a hurry. The way around it is to click Pause -> skip -> pause -> play (I keep meaning to programme my Harmony One remote to do it with one click..) that way you'll see the time when paused & time skipped to so if it jumps too far you know how far to "rewind". It's a bit fiddly but still much better than watching adds or skipping them manually (imo anyway)

 

[TommySharp]

Anyone got any tips on the best way to transcode Freeview HDTV recordings to something a lot smaller?

I've been trying to use handbrake but it fails on some of the recordings, works on about 75% but not all....

 

[rlevis]

This was discussed on page 312 (I think). Let me guess it is your TV3 recordings you can encode and none of the other channels. That's due to TV3 including an AC3 audio track. The others solely use AAC+ in a LATM container and there isn't any freely available demultiplexer which can handle LATM yet.

 

[TommySharp]

Thanks rlevis..... Bit of a long thread to trawl through.

In the past I used to use iPimp and have it transcode all my shows without too much issue. Behind the scenes iPimp uses handbrake to do the transcoding so I thought I'd cut to the chase and use Handbrake directly.

I have one TV3 Home and Away show that converts fine but the other fails at some point.... Wondering if there's some glitch in the recording file?

 

[dvbkiwi]

Okay, so after discovering it was a power supply failure i have managed to resurrect my HTPC and decided NOT to upgrade to V1.1.1. It just seemed like a lot of work to break my server which works really well and never gives me any problems and then go around in re-install 3 clients.

I may still re-do it during the Christmas holidays

PS: I may still install 4TR during the next few days, I just have a bit more research to do.

 

[bopfrog]

This was discussed on page 312 (I think). Let me guess it is your TV3 recordings you can encode and none of the other channels. That's due to TV3 including an AC3 audio track. The others solely use AAC+ in a LATM container and there isn't any freely available demultiplexer which can handle LATM yet.

Hi, do you know of any commercial solutions?

Cheers.

 

[rlevis]

I heard something about Elecard offering something, but I've not investigated it.