[Ffmpeg-devel] codecs problem

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 20 May 2005 16:28, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:51, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sorry for jumping in this thread, but I used (and I am currently using)
> libavformat for reading a TS from a dvb device, and it works quite
> well...
> The only problem that I can see is that it needs a lot of time to begin
> parsing the stream (it tries to read too many packets for identifying
> the stream characteristics).
>
> > I gave a quick look at the code, and I noticed that the demuxer seems to
> > hang when parsing
> > the SDT.
>
> Are you sure that it is really hanging? I mean: if you open the DVB card
> filters for only 2 PIDs (the audio PID and the video PID), libavformat
> will wait for a lot of time before beginning to play the stream...
> Something like the attached stupid patch fixes this problem for me (but
> I do not think this is the proper solution :)

i neither think it is, but maybe a check based upon timestamps would be

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Michael