[vlc] Re: Fwd: Re: DVB MPEG2 TS doesn't work with vlc

[Tristan Leteurtre]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002, john smith wrote:
> 
> >If I followed you well, the multicasted UDP is a PS stream (probably 
> >encapsulated in RTP ?). Multicasting PS is a lot more prone to errors than 
> >multicasting TS, so VLC doesn't support that currently. That's why you're 
> >getting garbage.
> 
> Okay.. Back to TS then.
> I captured MPEG2 TS to file using dvbstream, but when I try to open
> it with vlc, nothing happens. I get no errors either in the log and
> there is nothing to choose from in the view->program menu.

It is because your stream does not contain any PAT and PMT sections. So
dvbstream did not produce a valid MPEG2 stream.

You may try to use vls to capture from DVB, since vls re-generate those
essential sections. 

-- 
Tristan
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