(Edit) I’m about to head out of the house, so will be AFK for the rest of the day. I’ve taken screenshots of my finding, just not had time to crop and post. So you shouldn’t really need the original file. I wonder how MediaInfo and PMS get different results when scanning the files
@ChuckPa After getting side tracked on (a) other projects, (b) ffmpeg, I’ve come back around full circle to looking at the DVR .TS files and PMS.
Straight off the bat - what does PMS use to analyse files? Is it a version of MediaInfo, or something else?
Slowing going through the Rugby Six Nations .TS (DVR) files, PMS is identifying all of them as being “Interlaced” (which should be correct, I think) apart from 2 files. These 2 files are the ones that prompted me to make this post originally.
I picked one files and did some more testing… MediaInfo, both original v19.09 (for Ubuntu 20.04) and latest v22.12, state it’s Interlaced.
I attempted to use ffmpeg to chop out a section that was actually from the match, but I need to do more digging as the resulting file was marked as “Scan type, store method : Separated fields” rather than “Interleaved fields”. The resulting file will play in Plex but is not deinterlacing correctly. And Jellyfin throws a fit and won’t play it LOL. Ideally I’d like to just chop off the first 55mins, and see how PMS handles re-scanning the file.
Just on Jellyfin, it too states that the original file is Progressive.
I would try and chop down a piece of the file and post it here (or a link to it), but as soon as I try and chop bits out (as I mentioned above), it seems to break. I need to mess around some more.
I can post the whole file, but maybe I post a password protect link (via DM?), incase there are copyright issues? The whole file is over 6gb in size (over 3hrs of TV).