[Mplayer-dvb] A question

[Arpi]

Hi,

> At work we are doing tests on IP based DVB broadcasters. That is products from Minerva, Optibase and Tandberg that takes clear DVB 
> signals and multicasts the streams out on the LAN over UDP. These streams are mpeg2 transport streams in the same format as normal DVB. Is 
> it possible to use Mplayer to decode a given multicast address? That is is it able to join a given multicast channel and decode the mpeg2 stream 
> therein?

not...
it needs 2 thing to implement:
- multicast input driver for mplayer (not planned, we know nothing about MC)
- TS support for mplayer's demuxer (planned)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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