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mikeb8591 · (This post was last modified: 2015-10-25, 21:03 by mikeb8591.)

Hello,

These are files recorded using the SiliconDust DVR, and converted to .wtv files with mcebuddy, using a copy-instead-of-convert profile. The idea being to convert the metadata.

http://pastebin.com/Y9Y9NhmY

Files play correctly on WMC on the Win7 box, but when I try to play them on Kodi with the pvr.wmc plugin, they crash ServerWMC.

Kodi will also play the orignal SD files either through their Kodi app, or when served dlna.

This is with the latest swmc (1199) and Kodi 14.2, mcebuddy 2.4.3

Thanks,
Mike

krustyreturns · 2015-10-25, 23:31

Turn off 'Remux the playback of all wtv files' (see the debug tab in serverwmc).

krustyreturns · 2015-10-25, 23:35

I am curious what it is about these files that causes the remuxer to crash. If you can, upload one of the smaller ones (or make a small one) and put it on my google drive here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0...sp=sharing

or give me a link where I can download it.

mikeb8591 · 2015-10-26, 02:06

(2015-10-25, 23:31)krustyreturns Wrote: Turn off 'Remux the playback of all wtv files' (see the debug tab in serverwmc).

Did that, and it doesn't crash, but still doesn't play either.

Thanks,
Mike

mikeb8591 · 2015-10-26, 03:04

(2015-10-25, 23:35)krustyreturns Wrote: I am curious what it is about these files that causes the remuxer to crash. If you can, upload one of the smaller ones (or make a small one) and put it on my google drive here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0...sp=sharing

or give me a link where I can download it.

Best I can do is about a G. If that's ok to upload, please let me know. I was going to PM you a link, but the board won't allow me to compose a PM.

Thanks,
Mike

krustyreturns · 2015-10-26, 03:08

With this setting turned off, serverwmc is not doing anything with the wtv file, it is just telling kodi where the file is located and kodi is playing it. I can't tell from your original post, did you verify that kodi can play these files if you just add their location as a video source and play them directly?

krustyreturns · (This post was last modified: 2015-10-26, 03:09 by krustyreturns.)

Yeah a gig is fine, it will just take some time to upload.

mikeb8591 · 2015-10-26, 04:14

(2015-10-26, 03:08)krustyreturns Wrote: With this setting turned off, serverwmc is not doing anything with the wtv file, it is just telling kodi where the file is located and kodi is playing it. I can't tell from your original post, did you verify that kodi can play these files if you just add their location as a video source and play them directly?

I did try that, and it does play fine in that manner. Just not though the pvr.mce interface. I suspect it's also trying to read the metadata and becoming unhappy.

I believe this is a mcebuddy bug, and I'm contacting them about it, but I thought you would want to know, in case there's something you can do to make swmc a bit more robust in this case.

Upload is complete, it's in the mcebuddy2.4.3_conversion folder.

Thanks,
Mike

krustyreturns · 2015-10-26, 04:33

Hey, I can play that recording fine from inside of the pvr.wmc addon, are you sure you can't?

mikeb8591 · 2015-10-26, 05:43

(2015-10-26, 04:33)krustyreturns Wrote: Hey, I can play that recording fine from inside of the pvr.wmc addon, are you sure you can't?

Yes, I'm sure. It just sits and spins until I hard reset the box. (RPI2)

I'm running 0.3.112 PVR client, on 14.2 kodi, 5.0.8 openELEC

Thanks,
Mike

krustyreturns · 2015-10-26, 06:07

If you can, try running kodi on the windows box that is running serverwmc.

The file itself crashes the remuxer because it does not contain a wtv file header - or at least not what I have learned to expect in wtv format. I am assuming kodi and the other players are picking up on what the real container format is. Thanks for the file, the new version of swmc won't crash if it it happens again (not much of a consolation for you, but its something).

mikeb8591 · 2015-10-27, 03:17

Hmm, I'm reluctant to install kodi on that box, but if you *really* need the info from doing that, let me know.

Did fixing the crash allow the file to play on the client with remux selected? I think it's great you found and protected against the crash so quickly, I assume that will be in the next release? It's a marathon, not a sprint, after all. :-)

krustyreturns · 2015-10-27, 03:34

I don't need the info, but like I said the file plays fine for me on my development machine using the pvr.wmc addon (win7, 64b + Kodi16 nightly) so I'm just curious why it's not for you, and wondering if the problem is particular to openElec.

And no, the file can't play in remux mode, the fix just protects against the crash when the remux can't make sense of the wtv file header, and it reports the error immediately in kodi, rather than forcing people to watch a spinning wheel. It will be in the next release.

krustyreturns · 2015-10-27, 04:25

@mikeb8591

After a little more investigating, the reason your mcebuddy files are failing is because they are the old dvr-ms file format, not wtv (even though the files have the extension .wtv). Our remuxer can't handle dvr-ms, only wtv. Recheck how they are being created in mcebuddy and make sure that it is creating actual wtv files.

mikeb8591 · 2015-10-27, 12:45

Well, since the file I sent you was actually transcoded using the canned 'wtv' profile, I'm pretty sure it thinks its creating .wtv files.

I'll mention this in my bug report to them, thanks!