2009/8/18 Pásztor Szilárd <don@xxxxxxxxx>: > Thanks for the comprehensive answer. > Mr. Thommeret's hint about the missing video PID pushed me into the right > direction so I'm a step further now. With scan -vv I could find the video PIDs > for the HD channels and indeed they were missing in my channels.conf (values > were 0) as scan detected them as "OTHER", but with a "type 0x1b" addition with > which I don't know what to do for the time being... > > After adding the correct PID values, mplayer still can't demux the incoming > stream but the video is there, and with -dumpvideo a h264 elementary stream > gets produced in the file that can be played back if I specify -demuxer > h264es on the command line. What are beyond me now are: > 1) how can mplayer not demux the stream if it can dump the video out > (shouldn't a video dump involve a demux operation before all?) > 2) is it a missing feature of mplayer that no metastream is processed that > would carry the necessary information about the muxed streams? It would be > adequate for me if I could specify a demuxer to use but it seems impossible in > just one step - which I currently don't understand because an elementary > stream is dumped as video. > You might try: dvbstream -o 8192 | mplayer -cache 10240 - this forwards the entire stream to mplayer, you can switch the channels with [tab] Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html