[MPlayer-advusers] DVB documentation unclear/outdated

[Nico Sabbi]

lynx.abraxas at freenet.de wrote:

>Why is -dumpstream and co in mplayer?
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to save the original stream; this feature has countless benefits ;)

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>>>I'm    referring    to    this     email     from     the     thread     
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>>>http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dvb/2002-August/000668.html
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>>unsubstantiated science ficton
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>OK, that's what I feared...
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(and btw, it was about using a hardware mpeg2 decoder (such as a dvb card)
to decode mpeg4, the opposite of what you want)

>No, even afterwards when the programme is already displayed and whatever minutes later.
>Do You have any idea how I could find out what's wrong there? I don't get any errors. Nor does -v or strace give something suspicious.
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run mplayer -v dvb:// >& log.txt and we'll see what's wrong