[Ffmpeg-devel] codecs problem

[Måns Rullgård]

Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>>>I bet that file was generated by vlc and its buggy SL muxer
>>
>>Yes, it looks like that's the case.  IMHO, we don't need to be able to
>>play such broken mess.
>>
> speaking of the TS demuxer in libavformat, although not related to
> this question, I noticed that its probing code makes some mess: it
> plays < 50% of all the many samples I have (compared to mplayer's
> that plays all of them), and it never works when streaming directly
> from my dvb card: e.g.
>
> mplayer -demuxer 35 dvb://  fails 100% of the time.
>
> I gave a quick look at the code, and I noticed that the demuxer
> seems to hang when parsing the SDT. Why on earth the SDT is of any
> relevance is beyond my understanding (after all it's a not very
> interesting DVB extension IIRC); permitting it to obstaculate the
> demuxing phase seems a bit too much to me. Is it really necessary to
> keep it?  Support for PAT and PMT/PSM should be enough.

I agree.  If I had it my way, that stuff would go away.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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