[MPlayer-users] Problems playing with vdr streams.

[Josef Wolf]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:

> >I have problems playing streams from vdr.  After about two minutes, the
> >cache fill rate (the last number on the status line) goes down to zero
> >and video starts humbling.  Some time after that mplayer exits completely.

> can you please upload a sample of the TS that doesn't play to
> ftp://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming and tell us the filename?

I have uploaded the following files:

  ntv-ts.txt: short description of the Problem with the TS stream.
  ntv-ts.log: debug output from mplayer for TS.
  ntv-ts.mpg: TS stream dumped via a perl script.

  ntv-ps.txt: short description of the Problem with the PS stream.
  ntv-ps.log: debug output from mplayer for PS.
  ntv-ps.mpg: PS stream dumped via a perl script. Since the problem appears
              after about 2..3 minutes, the file would become pretty long.
              I was not sure whether it would be OK to upload such a
              long file. So I have uploaded a short one. I can upload a
              long file (would be about 150..200 MB) if this will be
              needed.

Both problems (with TS as well as with PS) don't appear when mplayer is
playing the stream from a file. Only the direct playing from the URL seems
to be affected.

> Sometimes you have to use a larger probing range: -tsprobe 64000.

Did not help :(

BTW: I used the following perl script to dump the streams:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

open (STR, ">stream.ps");
my $len  = 0;

$|=1;
my $ua  = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => "http://vdr1:3000/PS/36";
my $res = $ua->request ($req, \&chunk, 1024*1024);

sub chunk {
    my($chunk, $res) = @_;
    $len += length $chunk;
    print STR $chunk;
    exit 0 if $len > 4*1024*1024;
}

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