[MPlayer-users] Re: libmpeg

[Ross Finlayson]

>Please, I would like some help concerning libmpeg. I´m trying to play a
>film which I receive via udp.  Sometimes blocks are lost, and corrupted
>data arrives to mplayer.  Then, I receive the following message:
>
>@@@ libmpeg2 returned from sig11... (bad file?) @@@
>
>After a lot of messages, sometimes mplayer crashes.

The problem here is that you're seeing occasional packet loss, and the 
"libmpeg" decoder is not very robust in dealing with missing data in an 
input MPEG stream.

If you're receiving your stream using RTSP/RTP, you can try adding the
         -rtsp-stream-over-tcp
option to MPlayer, to tell it to ask the RTSP server to send the stream 
using TCP rather than UDP.  This will eliminate packet loss.  (Not all RTSP 
servers support this, however.)

         Ross.