[vlc] Re: How to stream a whole transponder?

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004, Josef Wolf wrote :
> BTW: While searching for the reason of the above-mentioned tuning problem,
> I noticed an other strange behavior:  When I szap to an arbitrary program
> and put the stream into a file with "cat /dev/dvb/adapterX/dvr0 >file.mpg",
> I can play the resulting file with mplayer, but vlc don't do anything.
> The resulting file seems to be a TS (requested with DMX_SET_PES_FILTER).
> How do I set up the filter to make vlc play it properly?
> 

This related to the fact streams dumped using szap do not include a
PAT/PMT. These tables are required in a valid MPEG2/TS stream. They are
notably used to associate each ES to a SID. Mplayer only displays all
the available ESs here, while VLC tries to remain compliant...

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BigBen

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