record format mp4 ?

1st Official Post

    Hej all,

    I'm running libreelec on Raspi with external DVB-C-Receiver and TVHeadend.

    All recordings are written to disk as transport stream (.ts).

    Also I use a Samsung Smart TV and connect via dlna to libreelec, but the TV is not able to decode the .ts file.

    Is there a chance to make libreelec (or TVheadend) write the recordings as mp4 ?

    Thank you for your statements!

    Boris

    • Official Post

    yes Tvheadend can do this, you can choose between *.ts, *.mp4 and *.mkv

    if your TV understand mkv use that instead of the outdated mp4

    Hello CvH,

    thank you for your hint and sorry for my very late answer.

    I was looking for the setting, but I didn't find it. After some time, the request has faded into the background.

    But to come back to it: How can I set the file format? The only possibility I found is a post-processing command, where I could run an ffmpeg with appropriate parameters..... I had hoped to be able to write to mkv when recording.

    Thanks and greetings,

    Boris

    Hej Backslash (funny nick ;-))

    hej all,

    so I choosed 'matroska' and got a mkv file. Good to see, that TVHeadend is responding to the setting.

    With that I found that my TV is not able to decode mkv.

    So I come back to my first idea - to record mp4. I swtched to every possible Stream profile but none of the settings made that there is a mp4 file written.

    One more hint?

    Thanks,

    Boris

    I was told that .mkv could be changed to .mp4 by changing their file extension name. So if Tvheadend supports MKV format, maybe you could try this way. Sometimes I would use Joyoshare Screen Recorder as an alternative to capture videos in more other formats. Much more smoothly.