[MPlayer-users] Can mplayer support an audio bitrate change in the stream while decoding?

[Nico Sabbi]

zeno wrote:

> Short question:
> I have a 20sec long mpg2 (ts) test file,  can you guys help me find a
> way to play (decode) the whole file with mplayer without having
> mplayer to crash after the first 10sec? I uploaded the file (8MB)
> here:
> http://algo.epfl.ch/~zeno/mplayer/test.mpg.zip
>
> More details:
> I set up a TV streaming system in my local network where a server gets
> the tv stream via a DVB-T tuner and sends it (as is, no encoding) to
> my client where I have mplayer to decode the stream. This test.mpg
> file is a sample piece of the resulting stream I get on the client.
> What happens after 10seconds is that I switched channel on the TV
> tuner, and the second part (the remaining 10sec) uses a different
> audio bitrate (64kbit/s) than the first part (192kbit/s). So mplayer
> crashes when it reaches that point. Is there an option I can pass to
> mplayer to sort of detect a change in the bitrate and adjust its
> decoding parameters on the fly (without having it to crash)?


more likely decoding will break because of the changes happening
in the video stream. Try to use -vc ffmpeg12, -ac ffmp2, and see what 
happens