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No, you didn't invent it. You downloaded the unconverted file; as I've shown above, its not possible to find a magically new file on the FTP server that is different to the one which is downloaded from the Web Control IF.
The file you have demonstrated as being "big" is called "Pointless_BBC ONE W Mid_001_611.ts" which as I posted above is the file name for the *unconverted* file on the FTP server. If it was converted it would have been called "Pointless_BBC ONE W Mid_001_611_converted.ts". As I posted above, the structure of the names is as follows:-
Quote:Each route downloads with a different file name:-FTP server downloads as PROGNAME_CHANNEL_CHANNELID_RECORDINGID_converted.ts
Aura app downloads as RECORDINGID.ts
Web Control IF downloads as PROGNAME.ts
The filename of the file you have shown from the FTP server does not have the word "converted" appended to the file name, demonstrating to me that you have downloaded the original file.
Can you post a screenshot of the FTP server? As shown ni my screenshot there should be two folders – one holding the original file and one showing the converted file. Mine is attached below.
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larkim – 4 mins ago »
No, you didn’t invent it. You downloaded the unconverted file; as I’ve shown above, its not possible to find a magically new file on the FTP server that is different to the one which is downloaded from the Web Control IF.
The file you have demonstrated as being “big” is called “Pointless_BBC ONE W Mid_001_611.ts” which as I posted above is the file name for the *unconverted* file on the FTP server. If it was converted it would have been called “Pointless_BBC ONE W Mid_001_611_converted.ts”. As I posted above, the structure of the names is as follows:-
Quote:Each route downloads with a different file name:-FTP server downloads as PROGNAME_CHANNEL_CHANNELID_RECORDINGID_converted.ts
Aura app downloads as RECORDINGID.ts
Web Control IF downloads as PROGNAME.ts
The filename of the file you have shown from the FTP server does not have the word “converted” appended to the file name, demonstrating to me that you have downloaded the original file.
Can you post a screenshot of the FTP server? As shown ni my screenshot there should be two folders – one holding the original file and one showing the converted file. Mine is attached below.
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If I had downloaded the original file. It would look really good it does not. It’s just a fuzzy as the smaller files when viewed on my laptop. If it was the original file streamfix would not have changed it’s size in any way.
You only find these folders after the first copy no doubt a product of the rescaling process, If only we could download the original files as you can using a FVP-5000T the quality would be the same as viewing live TV on BBC1 in the aura app ot also using my other box. . It’s nowhere near as good.
I’ve tried to provide a route for us to diagnose the differences, if you don’t want to go down that route then I’ll step back from the thread. Subjective views about fuzziness aren’t really helpful. Streamfix would reduce the size of the original because that is the purpose of streamfix – to fix bloat in a .ts stream original file.
Your filename is wrong so it *cannot be* the converted file. Until you post a screenshot of your FTP file structure I simply don;t believe that you have downloaded the right file because all of the effort I’ve gone into here clearly demonstrates that there is a different file name / folder structure for converted files.
larkim – 5 mins ago »
I’ve tried to provide a route for us to diagnose the differences, if you don’t want to go down that route then I’ll step back from the thread. Subjective views about fuzziness aren’t really helpful. Streamfix would reduce the size of the original because that is the purpose of streamfix – to fix bloat in a .ts stream original file.
Your filename is wrong so it *cannot be* the converted file. Until you post a screenshot of your FTP file structure I simply don;t believe that you have downloaded the right file because all of the effort I’ve gone into here clearly demonstrates that there is a different file name / folder structure for converted files.
I will take screen shots when I have a new untouched recording to work with as I do the first transfer from the untouched original recording file. So attempting to reproduce the issue. A single transfer using the ftp server should produce a usable file without the extra data. In fact simply stripping out the unwanted data does produce the same size file as downloading from the webif does.
In the mean time I have significantly increased the quality of the SD file download to near 720p HD quality. Be interesting to see how a HD download scaled up looks.
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Downloaded the recording File using FTP. BBC1 – SD recordings should be 720 x 576. FTP copy reduced resolution to 544 x 576
Time to get file 5 mins
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Downloaded file run through streamfix to strip out superflous data
Total time 13 min
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Streamfix converted file upscaled to near 720p Total time 28 min (upscaling is slowest operation)
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Mission Impossible in 720K HD single frame from film start. Looks good on tablet.
Recode took about 30 mins
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You’re definitely having a very different experience to me, I can download the HD versions via FTP without difficulty. THey cant be played, but I can download the file from the FTP server.
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