Hi I have read that szap -r -p options was broken. May be is it reason of your problem with the latest MPlayer ? http://marc.info/?l=linux-dvb&m=121660960211299&w=2 could you try please to play in another way - after of tine with szap2 help please try like this dvbsnoop -s ts -b -tsraw | mplayer - dvbsnoop -s ts -b -tsraw | xine stdin:// or dvbstream -o 8192 | xine stdin:// dvbstream -o 8192 | mplayer - Goga -----Original Message----- From: barry bouwsma <free_beer_for_all@xxxxxxxxx> To: linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx, Hans Werner <HWerner4@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: HVR 4000 recomneded driver and firmware for VDR1.7.0 > > --- On Wed, 8/27/08, Hans Werner <HWerner4@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Barry, thanks for your messge. You didn't say whether you tried what > > I did with HVR4000+liplianindvb+szap2 (-p option). > > First, my apologies -- I've only been half-reading all the > messages, without really paying attention to things that do > not immediately concern me, and I probably should have kept > quiet. > > Second, I don't have any DVB-S2 hardware yet, though the HVR4000 > has been on my Interest-O-Meter -- nor is my machine fast enough > to play any streams in realtime, so I'm always writing a file > (which takes little CPU power) for playback later; in the case > of H.264 1080i video, I see at best part of one, two, or maybe > three full frames per second, which actually gives me time to > judge the quality of the video compression. > > So, no, I haven't tried that, but I'm confused -- based on your > posted debug output, it looked as though you were playing a > recorded file, testfile_anixe.ts ... > > > The output you gave reminded me of that of ITV-HD, which uses > some (PAFF?) encoding for which mplayer recently got support, > so I posted, in case you had a distro-supplied player. > > > > I regularly update mplayer from SVN and recompile too. I > > have tried the following: > > > > MPlayer dev-SVN-r27489-4.1.2 (today!): runs but video very > > slow and out of sync, audio ok. > > MPlayer dev-SVN-r27341-4.1.2 (about 1 month old): crashes > > in <1s > > Good to know, and thanks for making me look like a fool, and > I'm happy for it. No, really. It's not just worth it for its > own sake, but if it helps others, that's even better. > > > > And I have some sample TS files for Astra HD+ made with > > another card which all the > > mplayers play perfectly so I know h264 is working. > > I am going to plead ignorance of what does, and what does not > work for you. Please correct me where I ass-u-me wrong: > > arte HD plays fine for you, both from a recorded TS file, and > live from szap2. > > Anixe HD / Astra HD+ play fine from recorded files from another > machine. > > Anixe HD played from your anixe.ts file crashed? > Anixe HD played from szap2 crashed? > > > I pointed out the different debug output from BBC-HD/ITV-HD to > show that of ITV matched your errors, and that's using an encoding > for which support has only within the last month or two appeared > in mplayer, and will not be as mature as the support used by > other streams. > > > Just a thought, if you cannot play a realtime stream, is that the > decoder needs to do seeking within the stream, which it could do > within a file, but the support is not yet mature enough to be able > to do the same within a stream. I could be completely wrong... > > > If you have short examples of recorded files that crash, and others > from the same source that play properly, I'd be interested to be > able to download them and look for obvious problems. > > And likewise, if I'm not understanding where you have success and > failures with mplayer, please correct me, if you think it's worth > it, as I don't have the hardware to test on my own. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb