[MPlayer-dev-eng] problem with playback via a pipe/dvb

[Nico Sabbi]

Trent Piepho wrote:

>ICertain files, and dvb stations, won't play back correctly via a pipe.
>There will be video glitches, a52 CRC errors, demuxer errors, and so on.
>What you would expect if the files were somehow corrupted.
>
>I see this problem with:
>
>cat file.ts | mplayer -
>mkfifo pipe ; cat file.ts > pipe & mplayer pipe
>mplayer dvb://channel
>
>Using -cache 100000 -cache-min 5 doesn't appear to have any effect.
>
>It's not just TS streams that have this problem, and not all TS streams are
>effected.  For example, some dvb channels will play correctly with a dvb://
>url and some won't.  If I capture to a file, they all work correctly.  If I
>pipe those same files, it doesn't work for the problem stations.
>
>I have the same problem with quicktime files too, for example the 1080p
>Serenity trailer from apple.
>
>It appears to be demuxer related, as I haven't been able to reproduce the
>problem with transport streams if I use -demuxer lavf.
>
>I've uploaded a problem and a non-problem TS file to mplayerhq, as well as
>a text file with mplayer -v output (about 80k, so I'll not post it here).
>  
>
and the name of the files are?