[MPlayer-users] Trouble playing mpegts containing H264

[Keean Schupke]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Keean Schupke wrote:
>
>>
>> "es type=10000002 subtype=0 h264=10000005"
>>
>> and the player fails to find the video stream and just plays the audio.
>>
>> If however I modify the line that sets the video type:
>>
>> -          param->vtype = IS_VIDEO(es.type) ? es.type : es.subtype
>> +         param->vtype = VIDEO_H264;
>>
>> Then the stream plays correctly!
>>
>> It appears on closer examination the PAT table for the stream does 
>> not contain information for the video and audio streams, and so 
>> mplayer falls back to guessing based on the PES stream-id... which is 
>> of course about as useful as a random guess (in as far as it always 
>> chooses MPEG2 for the video stream, so it works for the current 
>> generation of broadcast DVB). However "dvbtune -i" correctly finds 
>> the H264 stream and the audio stream. How is dvbtune picking up this 
>> information when mplayer cannot? VLC also picks up the correct stream 
>> type. VLC uses libdvbpsi to parse the streams, perhaps mplayer should 
>> use this library too?
>>
>> Is there any work in progress to fix the mpeg-ts stream type detection?
>
>
> add the pmt pid and everything will work correctly
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Cheers, is there any way to scan for the PMT? Is that what VLC does?

Keean.