[MPlayer-dev-eng] Playing videos from tv.freebox.fr

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 18:28:53 Nicolas George wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The French ISP Proxad (aka Free) allows its customers to watch the
> TV from HTTP streams, for example <URL:
> http://tv.freebox.fr/stream_france2 >. The web page it is embedded
> in uses a plugin with type
> "application/x-vlc-plugin", so these streams are supposed to be
> playable with free software.
>
> Unfortunately, mplayer is not able to play them: the video is just
> fine, but the sound does not work at all, and even sometimes
> crashes mplayer. ffplay plays just the video, and ignores the sound
> completely.
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> I put a sample file there:
> http://www.normalesup.org/~george/tmp/stream_france2.ts
>

the audio stream is probably in LATM format but evidently the 
correct syncwords are beyond the first demux_packet that is being
scanned. I still have to find a better detection method