[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] H.264 updates for VDR-1.5.9

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

Petri Helin wrote:

>> Please try the attached patch which adds VPID clipping to some locations.
> 
> I can gladly tell you that now there are several "00 00 01" blocks in 
> the sample.ts file. So something has changed to better. But for some 
> reason I am unable to play the sample.ts file. This is what mplayer 
> tells me when I try to replay:

I can play the sample TS file you've sent me with

	mplayer -vc ffh264 sample.ts

mplayer incorrectly chose mpeg12 in your case, as it doesn't expect
H.264 in the TS's PES packets.

> I am now also able to record h.264 encoded programs, just like mpeg2 
> encoded, and as a result xxx.vdr files are created. But still, i cannot 
> replay them either.

Stock xine-lib-1.1.7 or higher can play those files. You may also want
to use vdr-xine-0.7.11 with a patched xine-lib-1.1.8 or stock xine-lib-1.2.

mplayer doesn't expect H.264 in PES files and therefore looks for a
MPEG1/2 sequence header.

BTW: Thank you very much for pointing me into the right direction
regarding this issue!

NOTE: be aware that FFmpeg doesn't support interlaced streams properly
at the moment. It typically crashes after a few frames. In my
xine-lib.patch for xine-lib-1.1.8 I've therefore disabled decoding of
interlaced frames (more or less properly).

Bye.
-- 
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl at gmx.de