[vdr] Re: Announce: DVBVideoLAN

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Sam, 2002-06-22 um 20.07 schrieb DOm:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:58:32 +0200 (CEST)
> "Gernot A. Weber" <gernot@tux-web.de> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > 'Stream not seekable' means you have no file with indexes, so you
> > > can't go forwards or backwards. But it should work ...
> > >
> > > Rene
> > >
> > 
> > But nothing happened. No window opened :((
> > 
> > Gernot
> > 
> 
> I think dvbvideolan streams "ts" stuff, and mplayer, AFAIR, cannot play
> "ts" _directly_. 
> Correct me if i'm wrong, PLEASE.
> 
> I tried ddvbstream too, and if i launch the program with the "-ps"
> option,(vanilla) mplayer works well on the client side; if i omit the
> "-ps" option mplayer require a filter like ts2ps or a little patch to
> play the stream correctly.
> 
> If dvbvideolan will stream "ps" ( in future version ), then
> plain-unpatched mplayer will read it flawlessly.
> 

dvbstream puts a TS on air. But dvbvideolan puts the output of VDR on
air (not the TS from the cards I think ...?), which is MPEG-PES and can
be handled by Mplayer.

Rene