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[Auto Addict]

My Humax box has Samba Server installed, Media Player can see the recordings but will only play the sound track but not pictures.

[Kevin Wood]

Sounds to me like it might be missing a codec for the video.

Do the same files play properly if you copy them locally?

[Auto Addict]

Sounds to me like it might be missing a codec for the video.

Do the same files play properly if you copy them locally?

Er, how do I do that?

[Kevin Wood]

If you have SAMBA on the set top box, it should appear as a device in Windows networking such that you can copy the file from the device onto your PC, then open the file in media player.

If not, then it has probably found it via DNLA and is trying to stream content from it.

Either way, that answer is probably the same, that media player doesn't have a suitable codec to decode the video, only the audio.

[Auto Addict]

If you have SAMBA on the set top box, it should appear as a device in Windows networking such that you can copy the file from the device onto your PC, then open the file in media player.

If not, then it has probably found it via DNLA and is trying to stream content from it.

Either way, that answer is probably the same, that media player doesn't have a suitable codec to decode the video, only the audio.

OK, thanks.

[TD]

Any reason you don't just in front of the tv and watch the program? 

[STEMO]

Trying to find codecs for media player is great fun. Similar to trying to pull your teeth out with your fingers.

[TheBoy]

Never ever ever ever ever install those stupid, pathetic, my-penis-is-bigger-than-yours, gay "codec packs" that the thicker people allowed to survive recommend. Ever.

Generally, for playing a bit of standard video, ffdshow is the only codec you are likely to need.

[zirk]

I tend to stick to MP4 and MKV for all my vision media or over the Network stuff, should I need to, I may use VLC Player to watch other codecs, if it doesn't work with that then it doesn't get played. 

[STEMO]

I watch the telly, me.

[omega2018]

I tend to stick to MP4 and MKV for all my vision media or over the Network stuff, should I need to, I may use VLC Player to watch other codecs, if it doesn't work with that then it doesn't get played.

second that, if VLC won't play it something wrong with it http://www.videolan.org/

[Kevin Wood]

I tend to stick to MP4 and MKV for all my vision media or over the Network stuff, should I need to, I may use VLC Player to watch other codecs, if it doesn't work with that then it doesn't get played.

second that, if VLC won't play it something wrong with it http://www.videolan.org/

Wise words indeed.

Actually, if coming straight off a set top box, I wouldn't be surprised if they just save the MPEG2 directly.

[redelitev6]

  I keep turning the telly off cos I use the remote upside down

[zirk]

I tend to stick to MP4 and MKV for all my vision media or over the Network stuff, should I need to, I may use VLC Player to watch other codecs, if it doesn't work with that then it doesn't get played.

second that, if VLC won't play it something wrong with it http://www.videolan.org/

Wise words indeed.

Actually, if coming straight off a set top box, I wouldn't be surprised if they just save the MPEG2 directly.

As you say Most TV's or ST Boxes will record directly from the original format, others simply change the Dot Extention File name to something else and then claim it will only work on their own stuff.

Ive renamed a few REC or what ever there called files from ST Boxe Hard Drives to Mpeg and they work perfectly 

[TheBoy]

If you use VLC, keep it up to date, as its frequently a target, and does have a lot of holes regularly found.