[MPlayer-dvb] Support for New Zealand H.264 DVB-T streams

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 07:41:52 Igor ha scritto:
> > My biggest problem was realizing I needed to include the PMT
> > information in the channels.conf file as this doesn't appear to
> > be documented anywhere.
>
> from MPlayer DOCs
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html
> In your audio and video fields you can use an extended syntax:
> ...:pid[+pid]:... (for a maximum of 6 pids each); in this case
> MPlayer will include in the stream all the indicated pids, plus pid
> 0 (that contains the PAT). You are encouraged to include in each
> row the PMT pid for the corresponding channel (if you know it). You
> can also specify 8192, this will select all pids on this frequency
> and you can then switch between the programs with TAB. This might
> need more bandwidth, though cheap cards always transfer all
> channels at least to the kernel so it does not make much of a
> difference for these. Other possible uses are: televideo pid,
> second audio track, etc.

a quick fix is to always pid 8192 and use TAB to cycle through
channels

>
> > Now I hit the video playback problems detailed at
> > http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/?p=43. It appears the video is
> > using PAFF based  interlaced encoding which reports the following
> > error
> >
> > [h264 @ 0x86a46b0]Interlaced pictures + spatial direct mode is
> > not implemented
> >
> > Any ideas or other options on what I can do at this stage?
>
> ah, everybody who watches the satellites hdtv channels has the same
> problem. :( I couldn't find the information whrn the support of
> "spatial direct mode" will be implement in FFmpeg/MPlayer
>
> may be the "coreavc for Linux" can help you
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/44350
> http://coreavc-for-linux.googlecode.com
>

indeed, the h264 decoder in ffmpeg isn't complete, yet