[MPlayer-users] Re: Playing .ssf files from Showshifter DVB-T

[Samson Lee]

Samson Lee wrote:
> I have a recording from Showshifter DVB-T, which is in a few separate 
> files (blah.ssf, blah.ssf.01, etc). The original stream would be 
> mpeg-ts, but i dunno if it is saved as ts or ps. The Showshifter 
> converter is very buggy (worse than Windows Media Player :)) so I'm 
> having trouble converting it to mpg or avi format.
> 
> Well, I tried appending all the files together, and playing it with 
> mplayer. Here is the console output of mencoder .. there is video 
> (albeit with lots of artifacts) but no audio .. it detects MPEG-ES file 
> format - do you know if i can force it to play as an mpeg-ts or ps file?
> 
> Playing joined.ssf.
> Cache fill: 19.92% (1671168 bytes)    Cannot seek backward in linear 
> streams!
> Seek failed
> MPEG-ES file format detected.
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  10000.0 kbps (1250.0 
> kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
> Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
> ==========================================================================
> Audio: no sound
> Starting playback...
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [directx] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12  [fs]
> V:   2.8   71  24% 10%  0.0% 0 0 72%
> Exiting... (Quit)

In libmpdemux/demuxer.h: MPEG_ES 1, MPEG_PS 2, MPEG_TS 29

mplayer -demuxer 29 joined.ts

Didn't work, so I guess the .ssf format is not MPEG-TS. Please, does 
anybody have any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks heaps