[MPlayer-users] Playing dvb-t with bit errors

[Nico Sabbi]

Peter Zelezny wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>About playing dvb-t with bit errors, is there any way to force
>it to "keep trying"?
>
>I've got a pretty good signal, but once every ~5mins or so, a few bit errors
>come through. MPlayer reacts really badly to this, usually by dropping the
>frame rate. It seems to accumulate, after a few incidents the picture
>completely freezes on a frame and the sound continues alone. If you don't do
>anything at this point, mplayer will give up and exit. There's a way to
>manually save it by pressing Seek +10s (this causes it to continue perfectly).
>
>So I guess what I'm looking for is a way to keep playing the stream without
>a few errors here and there causing it to stop.
>
>  
>
if the image is broken you can use -vd ffmpeg12 (which is generally is 
more resistant to errors).
Try also to play with -lavdopts.
If instead you are experiencing sudden image freezes and cache fill rate 
to 0% then there's no solution
that I know of yet (I'm still experimenting)