Short TS files

[dale]

I am attempting to diagnose the problem I am having with WinTV7 sometimes not recording. To do so, I set a variety of scheduled recordings for 10 minute duration.

When I attempted to view any one of those recordings with VideoReDo, it gave an error message "No PIDs specified when trying to open a transport stream" and so I could not view the file.

I went and changed the settings to have WinTV7 do the conversion to MPG, but leave the TS file there. On such a 10 minute recording, VideoReDo could play the MPG but got the same error message on the PID file.

I don't know if this is a VideoReDo problem or a WinTV7 problem, but thought you'd like to know.

I've not yet been able to reliably recreate a situation where the WinTV7 recording fails and produces a 0 length TS file, but I'll keep plugging away at it until 1.2a comes out.

[dale]

Today I got the same error in another direction. I had a test in which I recorded a three hour program and did not do the convert to mpg. When I attempted to open the file with VideoReDo, it got the "no PID" error. File size for three hours was 8.7 Gbyte.

[TheNewGuy]

When I attempted to open the file with VideoReDo, it got the "no PID" error. File size for three hours was 8.7 Gbyte. I dont know anything about VideoReDo, so cant really advise what it's not happy about, but that file size sounds about right, so I'm guessing its a valid recording and can play in WinTV7?

[dale]

VideoReDo is a program I bought on recomendation from this forum a while back. It was able to cope with the strange recording format that WinTV6 was doing (704x480). WinTV7 is doing 720x480, the more normal format.

Unfortunately, I did not think to try to play the TS file in WinTV7 before I ridded it. What I did do was to find a program that claims to convert TS to mpg to see if that would help. Program was called ProjectX, link = http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ProjectX

It has a lot of bells and whistles, and looks like it might be a useful tool. By running it with output set to TS, I got a TS file that VideoReDo would play. ProjectX must have corrected some flaw in the file that VideoReDo was objecting to.

I then made some 10 minute recordings in the expectation that I'd get a VideoReDo error with them, and could supply info and/or files to you guys -- but they recorded and played fine. If the error happens again, I'll at least record the log file from ProjectX and let you see if it makes any sense as to what went wrong.

I'm still searching for the conditions that make WinTV7 not record at all.