[MPlayer-users] .TY+ parsing / junk data not skipped over

[Neal Becker]

Mike Hodson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have been miffed for months (a year almost) about playing locally
> downloaded .ty+ files from my tivo.  These were transferred using
> mfs_ftp, and for the most part play fine.  Except when there
> apparently is a segment change (the tivo uses multiple file segments
> for recording a show) mplayer apparently plays "junk" that exists in
> the .ty file, but it seems should just be skipped over.
> 
> This means, that you can watch a movie rather well for about an hour
> (on my directv series 2 tivo) and after that, you get about a half
> second blip of some other show/some other shows audio, and then it
> tiles back into the movie where it left off.
> 
> I have, upon the suggestion of someone on the DealDatabase forums,
> converted these .ty+ files to mpeg files, and indeed the 'junk' is not
> present; the movie plays fine.
> 
> What would you need for me to provide to show you what is happening?
> (The best i have is a 1gig file thats 1 hour long, at minute 56 it
> blips).  I could camcorder it blipping for you, or somehow send you
> the last bit of the file if you wanted (using dd/skipping bytes)
> 
> Mike

I noticed this also, except it's still there after recoding into mpeg or
h264.  Had no idea what it was.  In the midst of a movie, a few seconds of
broken up video of some completely unrelated video is seen.