[MPlayer-dvb] problems with dvbstream / mplayer

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Thursday 11 October 2007 04:17:35 migmog ha scritto:
> I'm having problems with the following network setup:
>
> PC with DVB card
> =============
> terminal 1: tzap <channel>
> terminal 2: dvbstream -ps <vpid> <apid>
>
> PC with display
> ===========
> terminal 1: mplayer  rtp://224.0.1.2:5004
>
> It basically works, ie I get packets going over the network and I
> get a video and audio display. However, it's really corrupted and
> totally unwatchable. I've tried adding various -cache values, but
> this does not improve it.
>
> The mplayer terminal screen shows a stream of errors that look like
> this:
>
> Stray packet (seq[18]=53557 seq=53555, newseq=-2 found at 16)
> Stray packet (seq[18]=53557 seq=53556, newseq=-1 found at 17)
>
> Is this a bug in dvbstream? Is this code maintained? I can't get to
> the author's website at linuxstb.org, and the version I have (0.5)
> appears to be quite old.
>
> I have good reception, and when I capture to a file with dvbstream,
> the file plays back just fine. Any ideas? I'm not stuck on using
> this combination of programs if there is a better alternative.

use a fresh cvs checkout , and if problems persist try to
prepend -udp to dvbstream command line and play it
with mplayer udp://ip:port