[vdr] Re: Announce: DVBVideoLAN

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2002-06-24 um 17.08 schrieb Patrick GUENEAU:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just done some tests on one machine using standard VDR v1.0.3.
> It works well if I tell MPlayer to ignore sound (-nosound). 
> 
> If I just user mplayer rtp://224.0.1.2:5002 it waits a few seconds then
> it doesn't work:
> 
> *************************************
> ...
> Playing rtp://224.0.1.2:5002
> Connected to server: 224.0.1.2
> Cache fill: 16.41% (172032 bytes)    Stream not seekable!
> Stream not seekable!
> ============= Sorry, this file format not recognized/supported
> ===============
> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the
> author! ===
> 
> ...
> 
> *************************************
> 

There are two possilities:

You didn't install the necessary formats/codecs for Mplayer (check if
Mplayer works with VDR-recordings directly played from file, if
libavcodec is installed ...)

or

something goes wrong when muxing the MPEG-stream.

Rene