[MPlayer-users] mplayer cannot find video in DVB-S2 transport stream

[Mark Zimmerman]

On Sunday 21 October 2012 14:48:42 Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Mark Zimmerman <markz <at> frii.net> writes:
> > -demuxer lavf works, but picture quality is terrible.
> 
> Yes.
> (Luckily I live in PAL-country so I do not have to suffer
> from telecined content.)
> 
> > I have uploaded PBS-DVBs2.ts for you to see.
> > 
> > I am using szap-s2 to tune and then saving
> > /dev/dvb/adapterx/dvr0 to a file. If
> > PAT / PMT are missing, is that a problem in szap-s2?
> 
> iirc, it is a known problem, yes.
> 

Actually, I'm just stupid. szap-s2 has a separate option for this which I did 
not notice:

-p        : add pat and pmt to TS recording  (implies -r)