[Mplayer-advusers] Re: [MPlayer-users] [feature request] PVA format support?

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 31 August 2002, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Friday 23 August 2002 18:40, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Thursday, 15 August 2002, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > I don't have any experience in programming video/audio apps, but adding
> > > this should be pretty simple. It's similar to MPEG2. There's a
> > > specification http://www.technotrend.de/download/av_format_v1.pdf.
> > > And there's some code to convert such streams (but not in real-time):
> > > http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2000/08-2000/msg00122.html
> > > I know it's old, so I contacted the author. I'll keep you updated on his
> > > replies.
> >
> > Update: the author said this code is GPL. I can provide 2 sample files
> > in this format if someone wants to pursue this.
> I think it's already supported by mplayer for a very long time.

It's not. Although the files are recognized as mpeg2, the generate a lot
of sig11's for libmpeg12 and a lot of errors for ffmpeg2. Of course the
picture is far from watchable, too. I could upload two samples (from the
same source, unfortunately).
 
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