[MPlayer-dvb] Support for New Zealand H.264 DVB-T streams

[Igor]

> My biggest problem was realizing I needed to include the PMT information
> in the channels.conf file as this doesn't appear to be documented
> anywhere.

from MPlayer DOCs
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html
In your audio and video fields you can use an extended syntax: ...:pid[+pid]:... (for a maximum of 6 pids each); in this case MPlayer will include in the stream all the indicated pids, plus pid 0 (that contains the PAT). You are encouraged to include in each row the PMT pid for the corresponding channel (if you know it). You can also specify 8192, this will select all pids on this frequency and you can then switch between the programs with TAB. This might need more bandwidth, though cheap cards always transfer all channels at least to the kernel so it does not make much of a difference for these. Other possible uses are: televideo pid, second audio track, etc.


> Now I hit the video playback problems detailed at
> http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/?p=43. It appears the video is using PAFF
> based  interlaced encoding which reports the following error
> 
> [h264 @ 0x86a46b0]Interlaced pictures + spatial direct mode is not
> implemented
> 
> Any ideas or other options on what I can do at this stage?

ah, everybody who watches the satellites hdtv channels has the same problem. :(
I couldn't find the information whrn the support of "spatial direct mode" will be implement in FFmpeg/MPlayer

may be the "coreavc for Linux" can help you
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/44350
http://coreavc-for-linux.googlecode.com


Igor