[linux-dvb] Re: New Nova-t

[David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de>]

>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Lea <ed@jellybaby.net> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:04:52PM +0100, John Knottenbelt wrote:
>> I've had good experience with DVB cvs and dvb-kernel cvs.

> I've got it working with the dvb-kernel cvs. However, after about 2
> seconds of using dvbstream and mplayer, mplayer crashes which isn't
> very good

Try MPlayer-CVS with ffmpeg's libavcodec installed (explained in the
docs...):

tzap -r "<channel>"& 
sleep 1; mplayer -vfm ffmpeg -cache 4096 < /dev/dvb/adapter0/vcr0

works great for me.  You could also use MPlayer's default mpeg driver,
but it's not stable, crashing with corrupt mpeg data.  For this reason
it also cannot seek in MPEG-TS data recorded to disk, as MPlayer's
MPEG-TS demuxer is still buggy/incomplete and doesn't search for
I-frames.

You could also try MPlayers new DVB-support, which seems to be somewhat
broken (doesn't work reliably when zapping):

mplayer dvb://<channel>

Due to problems with the demuxer, pre-buffering is required, else the
demuxer desyncs and looses audio.  If you have such problems, try:

mplayer -cache 4096 dvb://<channel>

Remember to install a channels.conf with all non-displaying channels
stripped to .mplayer/channels.conf

David
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