[MPlayer-users] Strange play time in recorded transport stream

[Etienne Buira]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:35:19PM +0200, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> Unlike lots of other players MPlayer can play the recordings of Topfield
> receivers. These recordings are simple transport streams with a 3760 bytes
> header. The header starts with the four characters TFrc, the rest of the
> header is Topfield specific and should be of no interest.
> 
> Although playback is fine and even the seeking keys work, the displayed times
> (i.e. current playback time and total playback time) are junk. This isn't a
> biggie but I wonder why this is and if something can be done.
> 
> A 1 min test file can be provided (where to upload?).
> 
> Ingo

Hi.

AFAIK the format does not allow to reliably know where it is in the
stream (designed to be continuous, and as the timestamps cannot grow
forever, there is a need to cycle them). The only information close to
reality I get (at least with -demuxer lavf) is the stream length.