[MPlayer-users] Long delays before showing films from dvbstream in CVS

[Jim Hawkins]

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Nico wrote:

> Those samples would help me a lot.

I ran into a bit of a problem here. It only seems to happen when you're
reading live from the DVB device. If I save the stream to disk and play it
back it doesn't exhibit the problems I mentioned :/

> BTW I read on linuxtv ML (but I can't confirm nor deny it)
> that  unplugging and replugging the aerial from a dvb card when the pc
> is on (especially with DVB-T)
> *might* fry something because of the relatively high voltage (18V  ?),
> so I won't try it :)

Perhaps they meant you might wobble the card about in the PCI slot or
something. I was unplugging it from the wall rather than the card.

> I'm working to add some buffering in demux_ts to fix those "too many XXX
> packets in the buffer";
> hopefully this patch will solve all these problems.

Cool.

Jim