[vlc] Re: How to playback TS file without PAT or PMT?

[Nico Sabbi]

Deti Fliegl wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to playback a TS file just containing audio and video PIDs 
> using 'vlc -v -v test.ts' and all I get is:
> ...
> [00000313] main demuxer debug: using demux2 module "ts"
> [00000302] main input debug: looking for a subtitle file in /foo/bar/
> [00000313] ts demuxer debug: DEMUX_SET_GROUP 0 (nil)
> [00000302] main input debug: `test.ts' successfully opened
> [00000313] ts demuxer debug: pid[256] unknown
> [00000313] ts demuxer debug: pid[255] unknown
> [00000313] ts demuxer debug: pid[257] unknown
> [00000313] ts demuxer debug: eof ?
> [00000302] main input debug: EOF reached
> [00000302] main input debug: closing input
> ...
>
> after that vlc stops.
>
> When using 'mplayer -v test.ts' it looks like that:
> ...
> Checking for MPEG-TS...
> TRIED UP TO POSITION 0, FOUND 47, packet_size= 188, SEEMS A TS? 1
> GOOD CC: 32, BAD CC: 0
> TS file format detected.
> DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -2,
> Checking for MPEG-TS...
> TRIED UP TO POSITION 0, FOUND 47, packet_size= 188, SEEMS A TS? 1
> GOOD CC: 32, BAD CC: 0
> PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
> VIDEO MPEG2(pid=255) AUDIO MPA(pid=256) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
> ==> Found video stream: 0
> ==> Found audio stream: 0
> Opened TS demuxer, audio: 50(pid 0), video: 10000002(pid 
> 255)...POS=60724, PROBE=2000000
> Searching for sequence header... ==> Found audio stream: 1
>
> ADDED AUDIO PID 257, type: 2000 stream n. 1
> OK!
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  15000.0 kbps (1875.0 
> kbyte/s)
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? I really would appreciate if anyone could tell 
> me how to call vlc from command line to properly decode transport 
> streams without PAT or PMT.
>
> Deti
>
you had better fix your capturing application instead. In order to make 
mplayer work that way
I had to write some of my worst code

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