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    Hi, I've donwloaded some radio recordings to my PC - VLC won't play them but the MS Groove App will (Windows 10). It looks like VLC thinks that they are corrupted. Anyone else come across this?

    | Sat 13 Aug 2016 20:46:09 #1 |
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    Are you trying to play the recording file as downloaded or extracting the audio from it and trying to play that?

    (I use tsMuxer to extract audio tracks from recordings)

    | Sat 13 Aug 2016 22:06:59 #2 |
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    May not be much help but suspect VLC expects .ts (transport stream) container files to have a video stream codec it understands. VLC should be able to extract the audio stream from the .ts file in a format you can use externally.

    Random search.

    http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/15/how-to-extract-audio-from-video-files-using-vlc-media-player/

    | Sat 13 Aug 2016 22:10:01 #3 |
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    Radar59 - 2 hours ago  » 
    Hi, I've donwloaded some radio recordings to my PC - VLC won't play them but the MS Groove App will (Windows 10). It looks like VLC thinks that they are corrupted. Anyone else come across this?

    Possibly you have confused VLC to the format of the files. The original recordings are not MP3 but your thread title mentions MP3. What have you done to introduce MP3 into the equation?

    | Sat 13 Aug 2016 23:38:26 #4 |
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    Luke - 19 seconds ago  » 

    Radar59 - 2 hours ago  » 
    Hi, I've donwloaded some radio recordings to my PC - VLC won't play them but the MS Groove App will (Windows 10). It looks like VLC thinks that they are corrupted. Anyone else come across this?

    Possibly you have confused VLC to the format of the files. The original recordings are not MP3 but your thread title mentions MP3. What have you done to introduce MP3 into the equation?

    No. VLC works fine on HDR-FOX T2 audio only recordings when I last tried it.

    | Sat 13 Aug 2016 23:40:11 #5 |
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    Many thanks for the replies.

    When I access my 4000T using File Explorer on my Windows 10 PC the audio recordings are already listed as MP3 - with the extension MP3.

    The FAQ for the 4000T on this forum here shows this: https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/file-transfer

    Which is basically what I get.

    I have already tried to use VLC to 'convert' the format but it fails - although I've sucessfully converted the audio from .TS files from other sources on this PC using VLC.

    | Sun 14 Aug 2016 0:47:19 #6 |
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    Radar59 - 8 hours ago  » 
    Many thanks for the replies.
    When I access my 4000T using File Explorer on my Windows 10 PC the audio recordings are already listed as MP3 - with the extension MP3.
    The FAQ for the 4000T on this forum here shows this: https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/file-transfer
    Which is basically what I get.
    I have already tried to use VLC to 'convert' the format but it fails - although I've sucessfully converted the audio from .TS files from other sources on this PC using VLC.

    What does mediainfo (treeview) say the file format is ? You can copy contents to a text file and post the details.

    https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

    | Sun 14 Aug 2016 9:11:38 #7 |
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    Hi Graham,

    Many thanks - the below is from one of these files (direct from FVP 4000T over the network) - I have left out the stuff at the bottom because it appears to be programme synopsis for several programmes - not just the one I'm referencing here:

    General
    ID : 4167 (0x1047)
    Complete name : E:\AudioNew\Humax\20160725_1312.mp3
    Format : BDAV
    Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
    File size : 139 MiB
    Duration : 20 min
    Overall bit rate mode : Variable
    Overall bit rate : 929 kb/s

    Audio
    ID : 1702 (0x6A6)
    Menu ID : 5824 (0x16C0)
    Format : MPEG Audio
    Format version : Version 1
    Format profile : Layer 2
    Mode : Joint stereo
    Codec ID : 3
    Duration : 20 min
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 160 kb/s
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 23.9 MiB (17%)
    Language : English
    descriptor_tag_extension : 6

    Menu
    ID : 1700 (0x6A4)
    Menu ID : 5824 (0x16C0)
    Duration : 20 min
    List : 1702 (0x6A6) (MPEG Audio, English) / 7210 (0x1C2A) () / 7201 (0x1C21) () / 7204 (0x1C24) () / 7401 (0x1CE9) ()
    Language : English
    UTC 2016-07-27 15:00:00

    | Sun 14 Aug 2016 18:55:37 #8 |
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    Interesting. File extension is .mp3, audio is actually mp2 (mpeg1 layer 2).

    Try changing the file extension to .mpg

    | Sun 14 Aug 2016 19:13:04 #9 |
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    Thanks very much for the advice.

    I changed the file extension to MP2 and it now works.

    Actually I'm using VLC to recode the files to reduce their size.

    Thanks onece again!

    | Tue 16 Aug 2016 18:08:04 #10 |

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