[MPlayer-users] Two problems DVB tuning and crashing

[Nico Sabbi]

Till M ha scritto:
> First:
> In Australia recently a new dvbt channel was introduced channel 31.
> I can't seem to tune this channel using latest mplayer.  Tzap tunes it
> fine and I can view its stream with mplayer reading from
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0.  I can tune all other channels fine.
> this is what I get from mplayer:
>
> $ mplayer dvb://1@Channel_31
> MPlayer SVN-r31527-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
> 154 audio&  339 video codecs
>
> Playing dvb://1@Channel_31.
> dvb_tune Freq: 557625000
> dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 0 when reading 1484 bytes
> dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 0 when reading 1484 bytes
> dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 0 when reading 1484 bytes
>    

the tuning code is very similar between tzap and mplayer. Are you sure 
the content of the channels.conf
file is the same?

> Second:
>
> I use tzap to save dvb streams to hard disk using tzap -a 0 -r -S -o
> /dir/file.ts TV_Channel
>
> I can't use mplayer -dumpstream as it's not very reliable read on.
>
> When I play these files back with mplayer -vo xv -ao alsa:device=spdif
> -afm hwac3 -vf yadif file.ts, some of them cause my whole system to lock
> hard, but not always in the same place and not always the same file.
> Sometimes the problem file will play through with no issues.
> disabling the deinterlacer doesn't help :(
>
>    

Carl already answered