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+--- Thread: Microsoft DVR-MS video container support request (/showthread.php?tid=34)
- Loto_Bak - 2005-12-22
read this
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=1921
- black88mx6 - 2006-01-04
orb uses the dvr-ms to create video files. until xbmc can play them natively i use autodvrconvert.
- Gamester17 - 2006-03-02
a patch was commit on january 21th 2006 to ffmpeg's cvs that fixes dvr-ms demuxing support in libavformat (more specificly in the asf.c and asf.h source code files), (libavformat is the container demuxer/splitter code ffmpeg cvs, but this fix has not yet been ported over to mplayer or xbmc; note and understand that libavformat is not used by mplayer (or the mplayer-core in xbmc) so the fix have to be ported over to mplayer (and the mplayer-core in xbmc) before xbmc can take advantage of it (meaning a programmer/developer need to volunteer to code a patch for it then submit it as a patch to mplayer and xbmc), ...however know that the dvdplayer-core in xbmc is using libavformat so the code could probebely be ported over to that with ease by the avarage c/c++ programmer ('simply' by comparing the difference between the old asf.c/asf.h in xbmc and new asf.c/asf.h in ffmpeg's latest cvs) if he or she has the tools and means to compile xbmc and the dvdplayer-core for xbmc, ...using the dvdplayer-core in xbmc to playback .dvr-ms could at least be a workaround until proper dvr-ms support is added to mplayer, (or until mediaportal starts to use mpeg-ts instead of dvr-ms).
someone then submitted a patch for this to the mplayer.devel mailing-list under the subject "patch] - fix for missing audio stream in dvr-ms asf files" but i can't seem to find that patch anymore.
any volunteers?, if this was implemented in xbmc then xbmc should be able to play dvr-ms files nativly.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin....by=date
ps! sorry but i'm not a programmer/developer myself so i don't have the skills requires do this or help out any more than making suggestions.
- jstraten - 2006-04-10
hmmm, it appears that xbmc can't play windows media center recording. i thought i could simply change the extension, but now it just plays with artefacts and no sound...
is this under development? or, is there a workaround?
thanks,
jst
- jmarshall - 2006-04-11
white -> play with... -> dvd player may do the trick.
you can add the extension to the <videoextension> list in xboxmediacenter.xml to save you renaming it.
- jstraten - 2006-04-11
i actually added the extensions to the <videoextension> list, but it seems that these recordings require a different codec because i have square artefacts and no sound.
- Robo983 - 2006-04-12
i haven't actually modded my box yet but will this weekend. i use meedio for my pvr. unfortunately the dvr-ms recording format is probably the only achilles heel to meedio and is the reason i am building a mod'd xbox because the dsm320 wont play them or just about any other video with out serious transcoding which i am hoping to solve with xbmc.
i didn't see any plug for dvrmstools on this thread and thought some might be interested. i haven't been able to get the scheduling to work yet but have used it manually to convert dvr-ms files to mpeg, wmv, wma. it will do an hour show in about 10min on a 2.4ghz celeron. it also has a great commercial skip feature that works fast. i am hoping those features will port over to the xbox once dvr-ms is supported since the same program that implement on the dvrmstool box works directly on meedio with the dvr-ms files.
- dbrossard - 2006-05-18
is this in the works? i can't find anything on this in the forums. dvr-ms files do not contain drm so it should be possible.
even better would be to reverse engineer how media center extenders connect to mce and use the full menu for playback. i already have mce but would much prefer xbmc for playing my tv files than the slow xbox media center extender....
- dbrossard - 2006-05-19
i got "slapped" for requesting this and basically told what everyone else was told... to ask for it form ffmpeg or mplayer.
mplayer has supported dvr-ms since 2005. it was added to the
mplayer 1.0pre7. if you don't beleive me search for dvr-ms here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
so again. i request that, since it is already added to mplayer, that xbmc now add it to thier release.
add:
additional information on playing dvr-ms in mplayer:
--snip--
plays in mplayer ok, have to edit codecs.conf and put format 0x20525644
under videocodec mpeg12. also you need lavcformat compiled into mplayer.
then use -demuxer 35 to play it
so mplayer -demuxer 35 testfile.dvr-ms works fine
mplayer's asf demuxer needs some help however.
--snip--
- lysis - 2006-07-04
is there a way to integrate the capabilities of turning this unit into a windows media center connector device? or give it the codec to read the mce recorded tv files? please let me know if this is already a possibility and i overlooked it.
-lysis
- Zuke - 2006-07-05
it's in the post immediately above yours!
Is there a way to play DVR-MS format files? - enzoweb - 2006-07-23
I use a freeware TV scheduler program called Webscheduler to capture TV shows on my PC. The developer has decided to stop supporting AVI and the closest format it saves in is DVR-MS. I can play these fine on my PC with Windows Media Player, but XBMC doesn't even see them.
I've looked around for a DVR-MS to AVI / MPG converter, but haven't found one that works.
- kraqh3d - 2006-07-23
dvr-ms is not a default filetype for xbmc. you add it however. Read this for instructions: http://www.xbmc.xbox-scene.com/wiki/index.php?title=AdvancedSettings.xml#.3Cvideoextensions.3E
even if you add it, i dont know if it will play. i think the most current mplayer partially supports dvr-ms, but i dont think the version that comes with xbmc using does. (xbmc uses an older build of mplayer.)
if the files are protected, they definately will not play. you should really investigate some new software to record with.
- Araltd - 2006-08-13
So I guess STILL no .dvr-ms support? Can anyone verify this?
- elupus - 2006-08-13
no i can't verify it. it was fixed partly a few days ago. it should play, albeit abit choppy on some samples. and it's in the default extensions