[MPlayer-users] mplayer dvb startup syncronisation

[Jelle de Jong]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2008 14:49:31 Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I am trying to build a nice dvb-t viewer with mplayer and I
>> stumbled upon some problems. Hopefully somebody can help me, with
>> some nice solutions.
>>
>> The two biggest issues are that the "TS file format detection"
>> fails in a regular basis and closes mplayer on starup. How can we
>> make sure it detects the TS file stream?
>>
>> Also when the TS file stream is detected sometimes the audio has
>> some large distortions, i need to stop the stream wait a bit, then
>> resume the stream and then the sound is good and in sync. How can
>> we fix these distortions on startup?
>>
>> /usr/bin/mplayer -cache 512 -dvbin timeout=5 dvb:/Nederland
>> 2(Digitenne)
>>
>> Playing dvb://Nederland 2(Digitenne).
>> dvb_tune Freq: 722000000
>> Cache fill: 15.62% (81920 bytes)
>> TS file format detected. (this sometimes fails)
>>
> 
> is your TS damaged due to poor reception?
> Do you have a couple of streams to analyze?
> Do other players play the file correctly?
> As for the distortions I don't know what to think about them
> without listening to a sample

I also have totem-xine with dvb-t support it does not seem to have the
TS stream problems or neither the sound distortions.

I don't think the TS stream is damaged or that I have poor receptions,
because when I just retry to start mplayer it will find the stream
eventually (it may take 1-5 attempts) and when the sound is synchronized
and you don't stress the cpu on the system you can watch the dvb-t
stream without problems for hours.

I was hoping some special command options where needed to fix the issues
and somebody would know them.

The distortion is that the sound is so distorted you can't make anything
useful of it, but after stopping the stream wait a bit and then resume
the stream it is fixed.

Kind regards,

Jelle