[MPlayer-dvb] can't play some atsc cable channels any more

Nico Sabbi Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it
Sun Feb 17 22:44:37 CET 2008


Il Sunday 17 February 2008 18:15:06 Randall Wayth ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a kworld atsc 110 which I use for mythtv running ubuntu 7.10. A while
> back, I detected all the digital cable TV channels that my Boston-area cable
> provider had on the cable. There were quite a lot of channels that mplayer
> could play. The problem I am having is that there are several channels,
> which after an upgrade from ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10, now no longer play. I am
> uncertain whether this is actually an mplayer problem, but hopefully there
> are enough gurus reading this list that someone can give me a definitive
> answer with little or no effort.
> 
> Yesterday I installed the latest svn snapshot and dumped a few megs of TS
> for a channel that still works to a file using:
> mplayer -dumpfile /tmp/good.ts -dumpstream dvb://GOODCHANNEL
> (names changed to protect the innocent)
> likewise for the channel that no longer works.
> 
> 
> 
> This is the output of the channel that no longer works:
> 
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r26012-4.1.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+ (Family: 15, Model: 44,
> Stepping: 2)


upload a sample to ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming and
post the filename, please



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