[andynehan]

I am a newbie to Libreelec Kodi on a Pi 3. Installation was easy and I can play my M2T files on a NAS very well - the system is easy to use.

However, I have a number of old home videos which are standard definition and encoded using the M2P file type and these are not recognised and hence I cannot play those file types. Is there some simple solution to this problem? I understand that M2P file types were commonly employed by Canopus and indeed these home videos were produced using Canopus software - which I no longer have.

Andy

[DarrenHill]

Can you use something like handbrake or similar to re-encode them to another format, if you've a PC or Mac handy?

[popcornmix]

Can you post mediainfo output of one of these files?
A sample file would also be useful.

[andynehan]

Cant find a way to cut and paste a picture into here so here it is typed in:-

Format MPEG-PS, Codecs Video MPEG-2 Video
MPEG-PS 2.5 GiB, 56 min 28 s
6 000 kb/s, 720*576 (4:3), at 25.000FPS, MPEG Video (PAL) (Version 2) (Main@Main) (BVOP)
224 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, MPEG Audio (Version 1) (Layer 2)

Hope that assists.

I have tried running Handbrake on it to produce a file type that does work but then the quality of the output suffers considerably.

Andy

[popcornmix]

Just running mediainfo from the command line is easiest.
I believe from the GUI if you choose html output you can copy/paste the text.

[popcornmix]

Also does renaming the from .m2p to .mpeg allow kodi to see it?

[andynehan]

WOW, ITS WORKED. That's great and so simple too. After all the file(s) were MPEG files so I guess it was the extension that was fooling Kodi, now with a different file extension Kodi is no longer fooled - so simple, so elegant - but a trifle confusing.

Thanks a lot guys.

Andy