[Ffmpeg-devel] codecs problem

[Nico Sabbi]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

>>Are you sure that it is really hanging? I mean: if you open the DVB card
>>filters for only 2 PIDs (the audio PID and the video PID), libavformat
>>will wait for a lot of time before beginning to play the stream...
>>Something like the attached stupid patch fixes this problem for me (but
>>I do not think this is the proper solution :)
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>i neither think it is, but maybe a check based upon timestamps would be
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reducing that value to 200 works well.
I wanted to try to see if it would work better for dvb, but 
unfortunately it seems that
indipendently from the demuxer used (29 or 35) I have the same problems: 
after a while,
and only on certain channels, mplayer complains of "too many video 
packets in the buffer",
and A/V desync grows so much that mplayer can't compensate anymore, so 
video freezes.
The same problem happens with certain live streams, so it must a be some 
mess in mplayer's demuxer
layer itself.