Handbrake hangs with .dvr-ms files

[akjohnston]

Hi,
I am using HandBrake on Windows 7 to convert PVR files from two sources into MP4. I was previously using 0.10.5, which worked well with both file types, although it had an occasional failure with very large HD files, so I decided to upgrade.

With v1.0.3 the main .ts files work fine. However the new version does not process .dvr-ms files (pre-processed files from Media Center), but hangs a short way into the process. In the GUI it shows "Scanning title 1 of 1 (20%)", and something similar happens with HandBrake CLI.

The log for this (the interactive session) is http://pastebin.com/3kXA9YPA

I have a work-around for this, as the un-processed .wtv files seem to work fine. However there is clearly a bug which has been introduced since 0.10.5.

Let me know if you would like a sample file to test.

Thanks
Andrew

[Deleted User 13735]

Run the wtv file through the Quickstream Fix utility in Videoredo before doing anything else. If there aren't too many stream errors, it should work just fine going forward.

[s55]

1.0.x does not support dvr-ms.

There was a new asf demuxer written for libav12 that doesn't support it. I suspect they are going to re-add support at some point but it'll be in a future release. So for now, if you wish to use dvr-ms you need to use 0.10.5