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Record video from FireWire tuner devices via the CLI
Authored by: comboprime on Sep 04, '08 09:33:33AM

I used to have no problem offloading recorded [unencrypted] shows from my Motorola DVR via AVCVideoCap, but lately I get audio with no video, or files that can't be opened in VLC or MPEG Streamclip, or other weirdness.

Recording live [unencrypted] broadcasts seems fine.

Has anyone else had this issue, and--even better--know of a fix? Or can clover record whatever the DVR is playing instead of specifying a channel? Or is there a "channel" setting that means "whatever is playing"?

Thanks! If anyone can find the solution, it'll be a MacOSXHints reader.



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Record video from FireWire tuner devices via the CLI
Authored by: synthesizerpatel on Sep 04, '08 12:07:38PM

I've been noticing some issues with the raw transport stream dump that get resolved if you transcode the file into an encapsulated format such as mp4/avi. I'm still learning about .TS files but I can confirm 'Things can be wonky', but all the data is there, it's simply being able to play it back right.

I think some of the problems are simply the disk throughput required as CPU doesn't seem to be too bad.



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Record video from FireWire tuner devices via the CLI
Authored by: comboprime on Sep 04, '08 09:05:02PM

Thanks for the quick responses! I won't be able to test clover for a couple of weeks, but I'll let you know if it works when I do.



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Record video from FireWire tuner devices via the CLI
Authored by: JimMueller on Sep 05, '08 07:27:10PM

Might it have anything to do with sporadically applied protection flags? Comcast was really bad about this - one week Dirty Jobs was set to Copy Freely, then next week Copy Once, then several weeks later back to Copy Freely.



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re: files that can't be opened in VLC
Authored by: airdrummer on Feb 14, '09 10:01:21AM

i've had that problem w/ .ts files for some time: no play in vlc, play fine thru firewire (i use apple's f/w sdk's VirtualDVHS.app, OTA)

are there any tools to analyse .ts files? some1 mentioned randomly-applied broadcast.flags...



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