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[Tom.W]

I bought a Hauppauge 1512 HD PVR for recording HD via the component input to my hard drive. I have the choice of recording using the H.264 encoder as either TS or MP4 files. I tried recording using TS and the files are there but the Dune reports unsupported format when I try to play them ?


The Dune specs:


Specification
Processor: Sigma Designs 8642
RAM: 512 MB
Flash memory: 256 MB, expandable with a HDD partition, USB flash drive, or SD card (2GB recommended)
Media sources: internal HDD (SATA 3.5”), external HDD (USB), external optical drive (USB), USB devices (USB flash drive, USB card reader, etc), built-in SD card reader (SD/SDHC), PC and NAS in local network (SMB, NFS, UPnP, HTTP), other Internet and local network media sources (HTTP, multicast UDP/RTP)
Video codecs: MPEG2, MPEG4, XVID, WMV9, VC1, H.264; support for very high bitrate video (up to 50 MBit/s and higher)
Video file formats: MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, ASF, WMV, Blu-ray-ISO, BDMV, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS
Blu-ray playback: Blu-ray menu, BD-J, BonusView, BD-Live – for full Blu-ray structures (Blu-ray-ISO, BDMV) played from HDD and network
Video output modes: wide range of supported output resolutions (up to 1080p) and framerates (including 23.976p, 24p, PAL, NTSC)
Video output framerate: automatic (according to the played content) and manual
Audio codecs: AC3 (Dolby Digital), DTS, MPEG, AAC, LPCM, WMA, WMAPro, EAC3 (Dolby Digital Plus), Dolby True HD, DTS HD High Resolution Audio, DTS HD Master Audio, FLAC, multichannel FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis; support for very high quality audio (up to 192 kHz / 24-bit)
Audio file formats: MP3, MPA, M4A, WMA, FLAC, APE (Monkey’s Audio), Ogg/Vorbis, WAV, DTS-WAV, DTS, AC3, AAC
HD audio support: pass-through (up to 7.1 channels) and decoding (up to 7.1 channels) of Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD MA audiotracks (Blu-ray structure, TS, MKV), pass-through (up to 7.1 channels) of multichannel LPCM audiotracks (Blu-ray structure, TS, MKV), decoding (up to 7.1 channels) of FLAC audiotracks (MKV, external)
Subtitle formats: SRT (external), SUB (MicroDVD) (external), text (MKV), SSA/ASS (MKV, external), VobSub (MP4, MKV, external SUB/IDX), PGS (Blu-ray structure, TS, MKV)
Picture file formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF
Playlist file formats: M3U, PLS
Photo viewer functions: slideshow, transition effects, picture rotation, zoom, browse playlist, repeat, shuffle
Audio playback functions: browse playlist, repeat, shuffle, ID3 tags, plasma TV burn-in prevention
Filesystems: FAT16/FAT32 (read-write), EXT2/EXT3 (read-write), NTFS (read-write)
Ethernet: 10/100 Mbit (with 1000 Mbit/s experimental support) *
WiFi: optional 802.11n WiFi (via an external USB WiFi stick, not included, Dune HD Air recommended)
Dune Network Playback Accelerator: special optimizations ensuring best-in-class network playback performance for the Sigma Designs 864x platform and enabling smooth playback of any supported kind of media content via any network protocol (including NFS and SMB) even in 100 Mbit/s Ethernet networks.

[HK-Steve]

Tom,
Sounds like the recorded ts format is not a strict ts format. Hauppauge might have modified the ts format for their own use or codec.
I downloaded a ts file from the net, which had a strange embedded audio, was not playable on the Dune.

Normally the Dune will paly anything you throw at it,
Try H264 and see what happens.

Download Mediainfo and see what it says.
http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

Cheers
Steve

[ecrabb]

Tom,

I'm not sure there's any advantage to recording to TS files... Can you try just recording to a program stream (mp4) and see if the Dune will play that back?

SC

[TheVerge]

TS is MPEG transport stream.

It is for mpeg2. Put h.264 in mp4 and I bet it works.

[Tom.W]

Thanks it appears I had a bad USB cable. Replaced it and the TS files were then readable with the Dune.