Support for WTV files? Microsoft Windows Media Center recording format

vskatusa · 2010-07-30 17:56

Please have a look at my post here

himayv · 2010-12-08 17:38

One way to do this is to have MC-TV Converter to convert WTV to TS (no re-encode required)... details here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=660...stcount=11

danconti · 2010-12-09 20:48

there is a patch for ffmpeg which handles wtv now:

http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/y...uJVykOy7xB

scroll to near the bottom for the latest revision.

TomPiXX · 2011-01-06 01:15

danconti Wrote:there is a patch for ffmpeg which handles wtv now:

http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/y...uJVykOy7xB

scroll to near the bottom for the latest revision.

How to add this patch?

lewisc · 2011-03-26 17:56

Any update to enabling WTV in XBMC?

TomPiXX · 2011-03-27 14:46

You should take a look at the latest nightly builds.
I use WTV since weeks.

sringgen · 2011-05-30 22:52

You say you have been using wtv for weeks. Are these standard def wtv files or HD?

cudaboy_71 · 2011-06-04 20:48

subbed. this is a deal killer for me. i'm currently using w7MCE for HD-HTPC, but the UI is sluggish on atom hardware. i'm looking at either springing another box entirely, or moving to xbmc as a solution. the UI in XBMC is fine, but not having DVR and/or ability to play .wtv closes the door.

wife and kids can't handle switching between applications; though slow, livetv, recorded tv, and local/internet prerecorded media (dvd, blu-ray, netflix, hulu, et al) can be handled via MCE entirely via harmony one.

donadriano · 2011-07-14 14:54

cudaboy_71 Wrote:subbed. this is a deal killer for me. i'm currently using w7MCE for HD-HTPC, but the UI is sluggish on atom hardware. i'm looking at either springing another box entirely, or moving to xbmc as a solution. the UI in XBMC is fine, but not having DVR and/or ability to play .wtv closes the door.

wife and kids can't handle switching between applications; though slow, livetv, recorded tv, and local/internet prerecorded media (dvd, blu-ray, netflix, hulu, et al) can be handled via MCE entirely via harmony one.

I've recently installed XBMC on AppleTV2 and it's been great. Tested WTV files today and they seem to work with nothing extra installed. A de-interlacing filter would be good but other than that they play OK.

You can also use MCEBuddy to convert WTV to mp4 automatically into a good quality, lower size file. XBMC can then easily read those.

smee204 · 2011-08-29 22:48

I find XBMC will play only part of the .wtv file. I started watching a recorded film and it played the first 15 minutes then stopped. I also noticed that the time bar was incorrect. It did not know how long the .wtv file was so displayed that it was at the end all the time. Here is part of my log file if it helps.

Code:

43:53 T:4676  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: Z:\Wall-E\Wall-E_BBC THREE_2011_01_06_18_55_00.wtv

43:53 T:4676 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED

43:53 T:2004  NOTICE: Creating InputStream

43:53 T:2004  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Opening Subtitle stream: 0 source: 256

44:07 T:2004 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED

44:07 T:2004 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86016

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Creating audio thread

44:07 T:2004 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED

44:07 T:6064  NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio::Process()

44:07 T:6064  NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86016, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through

44:07 T:6064 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 2 source: 256

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 2

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-2 video

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Creating video thread

44:07 T:2120  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread

44:07 T:2120   ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure

44:07 T:2120   ERROR: Previous line repeats 9 times.

44:07 T:2120 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available

44:07 T:2120   ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure

44:07 T:2120   ERROR: Previous line repeats 10 times.

44:07 T:2120 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available

44:07 T:2120   ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure

44:07 T:2004   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 2 source: 256

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 2

44:07 T:2004  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-2 video

44:07 T:2120  NOTICE:  fps: 25.000000, pwidth: 720, pheight: 576, dwidth: 720, dheight: 405

44:42 T:4676   ERROR: Control 1 in window 10099 has been asked to focus, but it can't

44:50 T:4676  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()

vskatusa Fan Posts: 341 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 2	2010-07-30 17:56 Post: #21 Please have a look at my post here
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himayv Junior Member Posts: 11 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-12-08 17:38 Post: #22 One way to do this is to have MC-TV Converter to convert WTV to TS (no re-encode required)... details here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=660...stcount=11
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danconti Team Boxee Posts: 8 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-12-09 20:48 Post: #23 there is a patch for ffmpeg which handles wtv now: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/y...uJVykOy7xB scroll to near the bottom for the latest revision.
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TomPiXX Senior Member Posts: 264 Joined: Jan 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Germany	2011-01-06 01:15 Post: #24 danconti Wrote:there is a patch for ffmpeg which handles wtv now: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/y...uJVykOy7xB scroll to near the bottom for the latest revision. How to add this patch?
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lewisc Junior Member Posts: 32 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0	2011-03-26 17:56 Post: #25 Any update to enabling WTV in XBMC?
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TomPiXX Senior Member Posts: 264 Joined: Jan 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Germany	2011-03-27 14:46 Post: #26 You should take a look at the latest nightly builds. I use WTV since weeks. Deutsche Sprachdateien für XBMC \| German language files for XBMC \| International translations for XBMC
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sringgen Junior Member Posts: 15 Joined: Sep 2010 Reputation: 0	2011-05-30 22:52 Post: #27 You say you have been using wtv for weeks. Are these standard def wtv files or HD?
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