[vlc] Re: Playing stream from Harmonic encoder: pid problem

Albert Marti albertmarti at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 13:09:31 CEST 2006


FYI, this exact stream can be played anytime using mplayer.


Albert


On 6/16/06, Albert Marti <albertmarti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I've seen that there are some options for TS muxer in the sout module
> to select video and audio pids like
>
> --sout-ts-pid-video
>
> but are there any to select at demuxer level ? Because I understand that
> this only work for the outgoing pids.
>
> Thanks
>
> Albert
>
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> On 6/16/06, Albert Marti <albertmarti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I understand that like any decoder, vlc should allow to work in mode
> > 'service' or 'pid', which for me means that in 'service' mode should use the
> > information in the PAT and PMT (pid 0) to get the information of the rest of
> > the pids.
> >
> > On the other hand, working in 'pid' mode I should provide to vlc the pid
> > for the video, pmt and pcr.
> >
> > Is that right? In case that yes, how I can tell vlc to work or to use
> > specifics pids for video, pmt, pcr, ...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Albert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/15/06, Måns Rullgård <mru at inprovide.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > "Albert Marti" <albertmarti at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On 6/14/06, Jean-Paul Saman < jean-paul.saman at planet.nl > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Albert Marti wrote:
> > > >> > Is there anything I can do to force, either from the encoder or
> > > from the
> > > >> > vlc, to get the PID 0 ?
> > > >> The encoder should generate it to provide a valid MPEG2-TS. A
> > > MPEG2-TS
> > > >> without a PAT (pid 0) doesn't conform to standards.
> > > >>
> > > > What I have discovered is that it only works when I restart the
> > > Harmonic
> > > > encoder.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible that is sending only once, in the begining, the PAT ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Anything is of course possible.  However, encoding an MPEG TS like
> > > that is not a normal thing to do.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Måns Rullgård
> > > mru at inprovide.com
> > >
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