[streaming] Re: Playing MPEG-2 PS on Streaming UDP

[Gildas Bazin]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:04, John Anderson wrote:
> I just built and installed VLC-0.7.1 on RH9.0.  I'm trying to play some
> streaming MPEG-2 from multicast UDP packets.  The video decodes but is
> corrupted.  The first hint of a problem (besides the corruption) is that 
the
> PES packet size is miscalculated and reported in ParsePES
> (./modules/demux/mpeg/system.h).
> 
> The message is "packet corrupted, PES sizes do not match"
> 
> The calculated size is always smaller that the actual size that comes from
> the PES header.
> 
> My question is.... Is there any special alignment requirements in the 
stream
> for program stream?
> 
> This could be an issue of dropping packets, but it doesn't seem like I
> should be dropping so many because the problem is just as bad with a SIF
> stream at 1.8Mbps as it is with a D1 at 5Mbps.
> 

Please, try to build and install the development version of VLC. It has 
undergone major improvements in the MPEG TS and PS demuxers.

--
Gildas

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