Hi, thank you for looking into it! I have used: 1. TVTest (https://github.com/tsukumijima/TVTest) for Windows and also tried recpt1 (https://github.com/stz2012/recpt1.git) with the same result. I suspect that there is video, audio, and the other tracks are probably some sort of closed caption and TV-related info. It is recording it from a TV tuner. (for some reason, I want to spell it as "tunner") All I really need is video and audio. I do not even need that good of quality. At first, I thought I would just ignore PTS errors, but then the offset gets really off, and I cannot really tell where in the video I am at. The strange characters you are seeing for meta-data - I suspect it is UTF-8 Japanese characters. They always look ugly like that. I assume we need ffmpeg compiled to support Japanese encoding to show it correctly. I am surprised to see these many streams... it is like it is finding streams where none exist. Also, I would assume that with .ts encapsulation it would be much easier to identify everything since the info is after each key frame. For replay, I see that it should be a standard MPEG-2 decoder. They even provide a GIT link for a Japanese version: https://github.com/DBCTRADO/TVTestVideoDecoder/releases I tried it, and there were no errors playing the file. According to the description inside the code, it seems as they are using MPEG-2 VLD to playback. I also noticed they have handlers for: MEDIASUBTYPE_RGB32, MEDIASUBTYPE_IYUV (https://github.com/DBCTRADO/TVTestVideoDecoder/blob/master/doc/TVTestVideoDe...) Since it is reading just fine, I am trying to figure out what we are missing with FFMPEG... -- Sent from: http://www.ffmpeg-archive.org/