[vdr] Re: Announce: DVBVideoLAN

[Markus Winkler <markus.winkler@gmxpro.de>]

Am Sam, 2002-06-22 um 22.50 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> 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.
you're correct. the current version of my patch streams just the data as
it would be written to disk if you record something.
but i think, i should give streaming of a ts a try :-)

markus
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> Rene
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