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mencoder quits #105

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What Version of iTiVo?
Version 1.7.6 (1.7.6)
What Version of MacOS X?
10.5.7
What download format did you select?
iTiVo-1.7.6.dmg
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. anytime i try to begin download of a show
2.
3.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by spohory...@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 2:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I tried a different show and it appears to be working. the show download on 
which it quits is a 2 hour show. it 
appears to be working for one hour shows only.

Original comment by spohory...@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 3:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Are you sure it's all 2 hour shows and not just that particular one?

   The Tivo sometimes saves 'bad' files which it can play but mencoder breaks on. 
There's not much I can do about it unfortunately.  Sometimes it helps to select 
a
different encoder (like Handbrake) but that's not always guaranteed to work 
either.

 I've certainly seen iTiVo work on 2-hour movies before without problems...

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 4:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You are right. It's not all 2 hour shows.  It looks like I have a couple shows 
that break mencoder.  I don't know 
how to try a different encoder but greatly appreciate your wonderful program.  
Thanks.

Original comment by spohory...@gmail.com on 28 May 2009 at 12:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
To select a different encoder open up the Prefs, and under 'download format' 
select
something like 'Handbrake iPhone' (which uses the handbrake encoder with the 
iphone
preset), or if you have pyTivoX installed in /Applications, you can try using 
the
'ffmpeg' encoder.

  This is a known and annoying problem with tivo files.  It turns out that someone
wrote a very nice tool on windows that can fix them (it's called 
QuickStreamFix, and
is part of the VideoReDo program).  But nobody has written a similar one for 
the mac
yet...

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 28 May 2009 at 12:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks for the tip.  I will try handbrake iphone format. I don't think I have 
pyTivoX, unless it came with iTivo.

Original comment by spohory...@gmail.com on 28 May 2009 at 12:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
pyTivoX doesn't come with iTiVo, but it's also free and you might like using it 
(it
will let you play videos back to the tivo from your computer).

  You can get it at http://pytivox.googlecode.com/

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 28 May 2009 at 12:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks for all your help. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to download the programs 
using the handbrake format. Any 
further suggestions would be appreciated.  Also, thx for introducing me to 
pyTivoX.  It's a great program. If you 
wouldn't mind giving instructions on how to use the ffmpeg encoder, I'd greatly 
appreciate it. Thanks.

Original comment by spohory...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2009 at 1:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The bad news is that it sounds like it's a bad file, and if handbrake couldn't 
deal
with it, then I doubt ffmpeg will either.  (you just select ffmpeg as the 
format from
the formats under prefs -- but I dont think it will help either).

  The only solution I've heard of that works for those bad files is a windows program
that comes with VideoReDo...  :(

  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  You may still be able to get away with
selecting 'decrypt' as the format and viewing it with a program like VLC...  But
that's probably not what you're hoping to achieve  :(... sorry

  You may try asking on the itivo forum (link in the FAQ) where there's a lot more
people who might be helpful with other ideas..  In your shoes though, i'd give 
up on
those files...

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2009 at 2:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks anyway! :-)  I appreciate all your advice and time!

Original comment by spohory...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2009 at 2:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I get this problem from time to time.   I've just tried using the original Tivo
Decode (version 2.1) and it is able to process the file.  Maybe mencoder has a 
bug in
this version of iTiVo?

Original comment by stuart.e...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2009 at 7:44