[MPlayer-users] Problem HD h264 mpeg-ts detection

[Markus Rechberger]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2011, at 22:34, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> we just tested some H264 transponders from our cable network and it
>> seems like there's some wrong detection in mplayer.
>> Usually it seems to detect MPEG2 video and doesn't play anything.
>>
>> --- wrong output ---
>> cat  /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -cache 10240 -
>> MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
>> mplayer: could not connect to socket
>> mplayer: No such file or directory
>> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
>>
>> Playing -.
>> Reading from stdin...
>> Cache fill: 19.06% (1998848 bytes)
>> TS file format detected.
>> VIDEO MPEG2(pid=6210) AUDIO A52(pid=6220) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
>>
>> sometimes when it detects h264 the video seems to work:
>> --------
>> cat  /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -cache 10240 -
>> MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
>> mplayer: could not connect to socket
>> mplayer: No such file or directory
>> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
>>
>> Playing -.
>> Reading from stdin...
>> Cache fill: 19.06% (1998848 bytes)
>> TS file format detected.
>> VIDEO H264(pid=6210) AUDIO A52(pid=6220) SUB Teletext(pid=6230)
>> PROGRAM N. 11120
>> FPS seems to be: 50.000000
>> Cache not responding!
>>
>> there's a sample video online (which is detected as MPEG2 -- but it's h264):
>> http://www.sundtek.de/support/HD_test.ts
>
> While we should of course fix this, if you know the format you really should just specify it, this also avoid some other issues particularly when seeking back is not possible (mostly losing some data), should be something like -demuxer h264es

thanks for this hint.

http://support.sundtek.com/index.php/topic,413.0.html it got triggered
by a customer actually, some projects seem to be based on mplayer
so it will be difficult to override the channel with -demuxer h264es.

In case you are interested in free sample hardware (DVB-C/T, DVB-S/S2
USB) we can also provide this.

thanks,
Markus