[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: mplayer fails to detect H.264 in MPEG-TS

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero <at> arklinux.org> writes:

> I've been playing around with a DVB-S2 card -- recording from it is working 
> (cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 >whatever), but when playing the result with 
> mplayer, I get audio only, no video. mplayer's output indicates it finds the 
> correct PIDs, but it's looking for an MPEG-2 stream when the codec should be 
> H.264.

In case your recordings are very valuable, you can use this patch to try to play
them (I guess they are PAFF encoded and can't be played anyway):

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2006-March/058772.html

Carl Eugen