[vdr] Re: Can't play some 1.1.6 .vdr with mplayer

[Wolfgang Fiesel <fie@iis.fhg.de>]

Andreas Wohlfeld wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:29:38AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>  
>
>>>I can't play (some) .vdr with mplayer. Seems to be an old problem, but I
>>>haven't found any working solution.
>>>
>>>DEMUXER: Too many (4096 in 7924724 bytes) video packets in the buffer!
>>>...
>>>Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> no sound
>>>
>>>It does this with uncutted and cutted recordings (in this case from
>>>Pro7).
>>>      
>>>
>>Maybe it's the Dolby Digital packets that confuse mplayer?
>>
>>    
>>
>Hm, maybe. But some .vdr of the same recording work some don't.
>Seems to have something to do with the start of the stream.
>
>  
>
The same here. This happens always at programs (PRO-7) which includes 
additional AC3 audio data in the MPEG stream.
The solution was to call mplayer with the option -aid 0. Here the AC3 
audio part will be ignored inside the .vdr file.

Hope it helps

Wolfi



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