[MEncoder-users] problems with x.264 from an IPTV stream

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 07:04:24PM +0200, Matija Grabnar wrote:
> On 10/23/2011 08:56 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >Matija Grabnar<matija<at>  serverflow.com>  writes:
> >
> >>I'm using mplayer/mencoder from http://www.debian-multimedia.org.
> >>Upto about a month ago I was able to watch and record the iptv stream
> >>from SiOL TV on my debian machine, but now all I get is error messages
> >>like this:
> >I suspect it will work fine with -demuxer lavf.
> YES!
> There's some seconds without any picture, but then it gets sync and
> it works.
> Thank you so much!

I also suspect it might work again without any extra options in latest
SVN.
In addition with latest FFmpeg -demuxer lavf probably also has a shorter
delay before you get a picture.