I have been using my WDLTV+ to connect to a mythtv backend for about a year now, and watched many SD cable recordings from my Hauppauge 1600 TV capture card. Recordings are MPEG-2, and start to play…after about 6 seconds the video freezes and the audio shortly thereafter breaks up. The time indicator will continue to run for about 30 seconds, and then restart at 0 (with no change the video image or audio).
I can play any other files types on my network, just not the MPEG-2. If I re-encode the files, no problem to play over the network. If I try to play the file directly from the network share (and not the media server view), NO-GO. If I copy the mpeg-2 file to a usb drive, same result, playback hangs after about 6 seconds. I can just press the back button, and the system responds.
I have reset and power cycled the unit with no change.
Scratching my head…any ideas why this might be happening, and more importantly, is there anything I can do to get it working again?
Thanks,
Weird, if the same type of mpeg-2 used to play before, are sure you didn’t change the way the mpeg-2 are being created?
Thanks. You are right, definately something in funny about this. Here is the media info for an MPEG that DOES play
General
Complete name : /Videos/myth/1006_20110104210000.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 2.17 GiB
Duration : 59mn 58s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 5 189 Kbps
Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 59mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 701 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 6 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.454
Stream size : 1.97 GiB (91%)
Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 59mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -58ms
Stream size : 165 MiB (7%)
And here is the video info for a file that does not play more than 6 seconds:
General
Complete name : /media/myth/1002_20120621190000.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 2.18 GiB
Duration : 59mn 59s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 5 211 Kbps
Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 59mn 59s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 723 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 6 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.456
Stream size : 1.98 GiB (91%)
Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 59mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -80ms
Stream size : 165 MiB (7%)
