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Feature #1521

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Different extension for mpeg2 and h264 files

Added by Razorblade about 11 years ago.

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New
Priority:
Normal
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Target version:
-
Start date:
09/25/2013
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Description

It would be great if the file extension (currently static "mpg") could be made configurable to be more flexible with different clients only supporting some file formats based.

I.e. I have a Toshiba TV (2013 series) that does support MPEG2 and H264 videos, but with the "mpg" extension it will always assume MPEG2 and not play H264. Also depending on middleware (upnp/dlna-server) and client capabilities transcoding could be enabled or disabled based on file extensions.

In newer vdr versions this information is present in the info file's video stream description:
<stream> is the stream content (1 = MPEG2 video, 2 = MP2 audio, 3 = subtitles, 4 = AC3 audio, 5 = H.264 video, 6 = HEAAC audio)
i.e.:
X 1 03 deu 16:9 (this is a MPEG2 video)
X 5 11 deu 16:9 (this is a H.264 video)

for older vdr versions (only containing audio stream description) it may be assumed that the video os MPEG2 as older vdr versions did not support H.264 anyway...

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