Re: Dump out on seek

Nico Sabbi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user.dvb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greg Bell wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm recording a transport stream from my DVB-T card with:
>
>mencoder dvb://"ABC TV Sydney" -endpos 00:15:00 -oac copy -ovc copy -o me.ts
>  
>

the resulting file is avi, not TS, but should seek.

>But, using mplayer to play the resulting me.ts, any seek forward quits
>out:  "Exiting... (End of file)"
>  
>

does it quit immediately or too early?

>Similar dump using mplayer itself:
>
>mplayer -dumpfile mp.ts -dumpstream  dvb://"ABC TV Sydney"
>
>And the resulting mp.ts is fine.  (but there's no -endpos option so I have
>to kill mplayer to stop the recording :)
>
>Output from mencoder included below.  Tried -of mpeg, which worked, but
>that seems to be for MPEG-1 streams only, and the audio/video sync was
>off.  List archive search didn't yield anything.  Help please!
>  
>

you can use -mc 0 -noskip.
To get mpeg2 instead of mpeg1 you can use my patch posted saturday in 
-dev-eng

    Nico
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