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Hi, I’ve donwloaded some radio recordings to my PC – VLC won’t play them but the MS Groove App will (Windows 10). It looks like VLC thinks that they are corrupted. Anyone else come across this?
Are you trying to play the recording file as downloaded or extracting the audio from it and trying to play that?
(I use tsMuxer to extract audio tracks from recordings)
May not be much help but suspect VLC expects .ts (transport stream) container files to have a video stream codec it understands. VLC should be able to extract the audio stream from the .ts file in a format you can use externally.
Random search.
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/15/how-to-extract-audio-from-video-files-using-vlc-media-player/
Radar59 – 2 hours ago »
Hi, I’ve donwloaded some radio recordings to my PC – VLC won’t play them but the MS Groove App will (Windows 10). It looks like VLC thinks that they are corrupted. Anyone else come across this?
Possibly you have confused VLC to the format of the files. The original recordings are not MP3 but your thread title mentions MP3. What have you done to introduce MP3 into the equation?
Luke – 19 seconds ago »
Radar59 – 2 hours ago »
Hi, I’ve donwloaded some radio recordings to my PC – VLC won’t play them but the MS Groove App will (Windows 10). It looks like VLC thinks that they are corrupted. Anyone else come across this?
Possibly you have confused VLC to the format of the files. The original recordings are not MP3 but your thread title mentions MP3. What have you done to introduce MP3 into the equation?
No. VLC works fine on HDR-FOX T2 audio only recordings when I last tried it.
Many thanks for the replies.
When I access my 4000T using File Explorer on my Windows 10 PC the audio recordings are already listed as MP3 – with the extension MP3.
The FAQ for the 4000T on this forum here shows this: https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/file-transfer
Which is basically what I get.
I have already tried to use VLC to ‘convert’ the format but it fails – although I’ve sucessfully converted the audio from .TS files from other sources on this PC using VLC.
Radar59 – 8 hours ago »
Many thanks for the replies.
When I access my 4000T using File Explorer on my Windows 10 PC the audio recordings are already listed as MP3 – with the extension MP3.
The FAQ for the 4000T on this forum here shows this: https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/file-transfer
Which is basically what I get.
I have already tried to use VLC to ‘convert’ the format but it fails – although I’ve sucessfully converted the audio from .TS files from other sources on this PC using VLC.
What does mediainfo (treeview) say the file format is ? You can copy contents to a text file and post the details.
Hi Graham,
Many thanks – the below is from one of these files (direct from FVP 4000T over the network) – I have left out the stuff at the bottom because it appears to be programme synopsis for several programmes – not just the one I’m referencing here:
General
ID : 4167 (0x1047)
Complete name : E:AudioNewHumax20160725_1312.mp3
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 139 MiB
Duration : 20 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 929 kb/s
Audio
ID : 1702 (0x6A6)
Menu ID : 5824 (0x16C0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Mode : Joint stereo
Codec ID : 3
Duration : 20 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 160 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 23.9 MiB (17%)
Language : English
descriptor_tag_extension : 6
Menu
ID : 1700 (0x6A4)
Menu ID : 5824 (0x16C0)
Duration : 20 min
List : 1702 (0x6A6) (MPEG Audio, English) / 7210 (0x1C2A) () / 7201 (0x1C21) () / 7204 (0x1C24) () / 7401 (0x1CE9) ()
Language : English
UTC 2016-07-27 15:00:00
Interesting. File extension is .mp3, audio is actually mp2 (mpeg1 layer 2).
Try changing the file extension to .mpg
Thanks very much for the advice.
I changed the file extension to MP2 and it now works.
Actually I’m using VLC to recode the files to reduce their size.
Thanks onece again!
Radar59 – 3 hours ago »
Actually I’m using VLC to recode the files to reduce their size.
On HDR-FOX T2, HD-FOX T2, HDR-2000T and HDR-1800T the audio only recordings can be reduced savagely without any recoding. Those models record all the epg for every channel which bloats the recording by up to 600% larger than it needs to be!
What I do is run it through FFMPEG extracting the audio stream with no recoding. That brings the file size down by at least 75% with no loss of quality what so ever.
Or is that what you meant by ‘recode’?
Hi, Thanks for the reply again.
Sorry for the time taken to reply.
The FVP4000T lists the radio recordings with an MP3 extension but using FFMPEG to check the file contents it does show that the audio is MP2. A 30 minute recording is over 200Mb and converting either by VLC or FFMPEG then gets it down to just over 50Mb.
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