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Time counter for .TS files

Postby mphil1979 » 04 Feb 2011 06:21

Hello,

I have been watching .TS files using VLC player. But, the time counter does not seem to work- it only shows 00:00:00 at all times.
Any tips?
Thanks!!
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby mphil1979 » 21 Feb 2011 11:17

Hello,

I have been watching .TS files using VLC player. But, the time counter does not seem to work- it only shows 00:00:00 at all times.


Any tips? would very much appreciate it!! I like the player a lot, but this aspect is irritating

Thanks!!
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 21 Feb 2011 18:11

This is a limitation of VLC.
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby brianvogt » 26 Mar 2011 04:50

Hello Jean-Baptiste,

I use a Strong SRT 5425 set top box to record TV programmes as .TS files on a USB HDD.
It has no trouble keeping track of the time counter and total playing time (about the only things it does *quickly*).
So this is clearly not a technical issue.
When you say "a limitation of VLC" - do you mean there are commercial licensing issues, or do the VLC developers have a religious aversion to .TS files?
As the footer of your messages says: "be specific and precise" (please).

thanks,
Brian Vogt.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Mar 2011 05:31

This just mean noone has worked on it.
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 26 Mar 2011 11:30

VLC is the only media player without a time counter. Incomprehensible and very annoying indeed.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Mar 2011 13:23

VLC is the only media player without a time counter. Incomprehensible and very annoying indeed.
Patches are welcome.
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 17 Apr 2011 13:00

VLC is the only media player without a time counter. Incomprehensible and very annoying indeed.
Still no time indication in v1.1.9.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby VLC_help » 17 Apr 2011 15:44

Still no time indication in v1.1.9.
Patch has been made for 1.2.0 but it hasn't been merged yet.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 20 Apr 2011 21:18

Patch has been made for 1.2.0 but it hasn't been merged yet.
I'm aroused. Thanks for the feedback.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 11 Jun 2011 12:13

Still no time counter for .ts / .m2ts files in 1.1.10.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby VLC_help » 11 Jun 2011 14:27

That patch won't most likely land to 1.1.x

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Neil1976 » 06 Nov 2011 17:23

I too have this issue with VLC...
Version 1.1.11

I have used VLC for years and m2ts files are currently the only format that the time counter stays at 0:00:00 when watching them.
It also does not recognise chapters in m2ts streams.

Will there ever be a fix or maybe a plugin that will enable this?

They play 100% perfectly other than this

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Sébastien Escudier » 07 Nov 2011 08:25

did you read the last answer of VLC_help before posting?

Wait for VLC 1.2

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Neil1976 » 08 Nov 2011 20:45

I read this from VLC_help which was the last update

That patch won't most likely land to 1.1.x

+ it does not say if it will recognise chapters

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 13 Nov 2011 13:07

Time counter works fine now for DVBS and DVBS2 transport streams. Thank you very much, programmers.

But the latest nightly crashes when opening a .m2ts file (which plays fine with 1.1.11).

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby VLC_help » 13 Nov 2011 13:49

Could you share us one short file I can use to duplicate the crash?

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 14 Nov 2011 19:45

I'm sorry, I can't. The file is about 20 gigs and I do not have HD video editing software.

After further investigations:

I tested 10 .m2ts files, 8 played fine, and with counter.

2 didn't play at all, reproducible. VLC didn't show anything, but you could still operate VLC (open other files, close it). So no "crash".
But after trying to open such a file and closing VLC, each time a "Process" remains, with about 5 to 10% CPU and about 20 MB memory usage!

Both files play fine with 1.1.11.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 15 Nov 2011 00:26

This is really annoying...
Can you try tomorrow?
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby VLC_help » 15 Nov 2011 16:04

You can cut TS and M2TS files easily
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.ph ... _ts_sample

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 16 Nov 2011 18:41

Can you try tomorrow?
With 1.2.0-pre1-20111116-0511 both files work! Weird.

Cool, but weird.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Nov 2011 18:51

Not weird. This is the libdvbpsi 0.2.1 regression.
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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 16 Nov 2011 18:54

You can cut TS and M2TS files easily
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.ph ... _ts_sample
Thank you, Sir. But hex code makes me dizzy.

Just saw that tsMuxeR provides an easy cutting feature, too. So if there's still interest in a 12MB/9sec-snippet I could upload the file (like said the problem seems to be gone).

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby thetown » 17 Nov 2011 20:11

the libdvbpsi 0.2.1 regression
That sounds sexy, Jean-Baptiste.

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Re: Time counter for .TS files

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Nov 2011 23:36

the libdvbpsi 0.2.1 regression
That sounds sexy, Jean-Baptiste.
You have a weird definition of sexy...
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