[MPlayer-users] A mysterious one time glitch from a Digital Standard Def broadcast

[José Gabriel Moya Yangüela]

I'm an absoulte newbie, but I've discovered some mpegpes (tv-encoded mpeg)
bring their best when using the pvr:// prefix. I'd try with pvr://

2007/1/14, Carl Weidling <cphilw at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been recording episodes of the old Perry Mason TV series, broadcast
> in
> standard definition digital TV.
>
> I've been doing this on a Apple Mac-Mini using an Elgato 500 Eye TV
> digital
> receiver and elgato software,
> but, once I've got the file, I've been transferring it over to my Linux
> machine to watch with Mplayer, and
> sometimes to compress into mpeg4 format.
>
> Well, a few days ago I got a file and mplayer couldn't handle it.  So far
> it's only occurred once, but I
> can't help but wonder what happened?  My first thought was that somehow,
> in
> recording, the file got
> corrupted, but the elgato software on the mac-mini plays it just fine.
>
> When I try to play the file with mplayer (version 1.0rc1-3.4.6), I first
> get
> the message:
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 9)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>
> Playing PerryMasonBlindMansBluff.mpg.
> TS file format detected.
> VIDEO MPEG2(pid=33) NO AUDIO!  NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 2
>
>
> Then it sits there for awhile, apparently searching for something in the
> file, and finally it says:
>
> TS_PARSE: COULDN'T SYNC
> MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
> Video: Cannot read properties.
> No stream found.
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> So, apparently there's something corrupted in the header information (even
> though, as I said, elgato can deal
> with it.)
>
> What I'm really wondering is if I can somehow patch up this file
> so  mplayer
> will recognize it.  I did a hexdump of
> the beginning of this file as well as some files that were 'good'
> recordings, and about the only thing they all seemed
> to have in common was that they began with 0000000.
>
> Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Carl
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