[MPlayer-dev-eng] STDIN problem - MPEG

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Thu Jan 23 20:19:33 CET 2003


Hi,

> MPEG has similar issues with STDIN
> 
> curl "http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.mpg" | mplayer -
> cat test.mpg | mplayer -
> 
> Playing -
> Reading from stdin...
> Searching demuxer type for filename - ext: (null)
> Invalid MPEG-ES stream??? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(
> Falling back on trying to parse playlist -..

it's an mpeg ES (video only) stream. it's impossible to reliably detect
from non-seekable media. you have to force demuxer type or enable big cache.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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