MontysEvilTwin
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Link to this thread in case they are related.
Interesting one this. I doubt it matters, but the HDR-FOX was already tuned to a standard definition channel when I came in a few minutes late, so I rewound to the start and hit record, then watched half of it on chase play. Came back later to watch the rest from the media list, after the recording had finished but got the 'signal is scrambled' message. Looked in auto.log: the file had been decrypted automatically, with nothing untoward logged. In Web-If though there was no 'Dec' symbol. I moved this programme to a folder with square brackets to prevent any more processing. Looked in 'deleted items' and the original was there and plays fine. I moved the original back to 'My Video' and rebooted. The file decrypted again, but this time successfully and is flagged as decrypted.
So now I have three versions, the original and decrypted files (as expected) plus a version which is not flagged as decrypted, and won't play on the machine it was recorded on. This file appears to have been scrambled during the autodecryption process
It gets weirder though. I accessed the Hummy's hard drive (Samba) from my Android tablet, and the 'scrambled' programme plays fine! So the programme is decrypted, but it is not flagged as such and it won't play on the HDR-FOX it was recorded on. As expected the 'regular' decrypted file plays but the encrypted one doesn't. I also tried playing on my tablet via a DLNA client (Skifta): it refuses to play. The 'proper' decrypted file and the original, encrypted file play fine by this method.
I presume that there was some sort of DLNA-related error during the decryption process, but it is odd that it will play on a tablet (Samba) but not on the machine itself. Is it corruption of a sidecar file that is the problem? I have not checked if the 'scrambled' TS file will play after sidecar deletion. I have kept the files in case they are any use.
Interesting one this. I doubt it matters, but the HDR-FOX was already tuned to a standard definition channel when I came in a few minutes late, so I rewound to the start and hit record, then watched half of it on chase play. Came back later to watch the rest from the media list, after the recording had finished but got the 'signal is scrambled' message. Looked in auto.log: the file had been decrypted automatically, with nothing untoward logged. In Web-If though there was no 'Dec' symbol. I moved this programme to a folder with square brackets to prevent any more processing. Looked in 'deleted items' and the original was there and plays fine. I moved the original back to 'My Video' and rebooted. The file decrypted again, but this time successfully and is flagged as decrypted.
So now I have three versions, the original and decrypted files (as expected) plus a version which is not flagged as decrypted, and won't play on the machine it was recorded on. This file appears to have been scrambled during the autodecryption process
It gets weirder though. I accessed the Hummy's hard drive (Samba) from my Android tablet, and the 'scrambled' programme plays fine! So the programme is decrypted, but it is not flagged as such and it won't play on the HDR-FOX it was recorded on. As expected the 'regular' decrypted file plays but the encrypted one doesn't. I also tried playing on my tablet via a DLNA client (Skifta): it refuses to play. The 'proper' decrypted file and the original, encrypted file play fine by this method.
I presume that there was some sort of DLNA-related error during the decryption process, but it is odd that it will play on a tablet (Samba) but not on the machine itself. Is it corruption of a sidecar file that is the problem? I have not checked if the 'scrambled' TS file will play after sidecar deletion. I have kept the files in case they are any use.