[MPlayer-users] Playing a TS without PAT

[Nico Sabbi]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:57:41 Paulo Flabiano Smorigo wrote:
> Hi Nico, Marco and everybody,
>
> I patched MPlayer with the code from Marco Munderloh and the video
> played. The audio was muted but I believe that is just do the same
> procedure as done with the video.
>
> One thing that I figure out looking at the code is that when
> demuxer don't find any PMT he choose mpeg2 by default. The problem
> is that here in Brazil (and I believe in more countries) the
> transport stream uses mpeg h264. Without the patch I can't play tv
> direcly from mplayer using dvb:// or with tzap...
>
> The patch or a implementation to solve this cannot be considered
> again?
>
> The old post:
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2008-September/07
>4243.html
>

no, it's highly insufficient because very error prone.
The right way to proceed is to call the same code present in 
demux_mpg.c (moved to a function, of course) when ps_probe > 0.