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

[Josef Wolf]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:10:45AM +0100, Benjamin PRACHT wrote:
> 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.

So including PIDs 0 and 10 (AFAIK, this are the PIDs that contain the
tables?) along with the video/audio PIDs should enable vlc to play
the file?  I'll try to hack szap to include those PIDs.

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