[Mplayer-dvb] DVB-C and channels.conf

[Nico]

First:  does dvbstream work for you?
xine and vdr are not relevant in this case because xine uses libdvb and 
vdr? I don't know.
I use the straight driver's api.

Andreas Matthias wrote:

>Nico wrote:
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>> From the log I see mplayer has tuned and is reading both audio and
>> video from the stream.
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>I'm sorry, I just redirected stdout and forgot to redirect stderr
>to the log file. The main differences to the log file with stderr
>are, AFAICS, some lines at the very end of the log, like:
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mplayer -v -v dvb://  >& log.txt is the best log

>>Can you run
>>mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile file.ts dvb://
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>When starting mplayer I can hear the audio stream for a split of
>a second.
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when you use -dumpstream the stream isn't decoded, so that audio that 
you hear has nothing
to do with the content of the dvb . I know some card have a buzzer 
onboard; maybe it's that

>[andreas mplayer-cvs]# ./mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile file.ts dvb://
>MPlayer dev-CVS-031007-03:42-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
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>Playing dvb://
>TUNER TYPE SEEMS TO BE DVB-C
>code taken from dvbstream for mplayer v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
>Released under the GPL.
>Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
>dvb_tune Freq: 330000000
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 11 when reading 708 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 11 when reading 708 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 3 failed with errno 11 when reading 708 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 2 failed with errno 11 when reading 708 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 1 failed with errno 11 when reading 708 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 3 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 2 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 1 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048 bytes
>dvb_streaming_read, return 0 bytes
>Core dumped ;)
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>Exiting... (End of file)
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>Hmm,... does "Core dumped;)" mean, that file.ts is written?
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Not necessarily, but all those errors are negative

>There is no real core dump, since mplayer exists with code 0.
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>>and verify that file.ts is not empty
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>[andreas mplayer-cvs]# ll -h file.ts
>-rw-r--r--    1 andreas  user         512K 2003-10-08 12:07 file.ts
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>>and playable, please?
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>Well, mplayer doesn't complain. But I can not hear or see
>anything.
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it's too short, let it dump for at least 1 minute and play it with xine, too

>[andreas mplayer-cvs]# ./mplayer file.ts
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>Playing file.ts
>TS file format detected.
>PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
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>New TS pid=255
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>New TS pid=256
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this is fine.

Nico