Re: no video for dvb-c hdtv channels

Carl Eugen Hoyos <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:02:38 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user.dvb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> Trying to watch HDTV channels via DVB-C (using a card with Philips
> TDA10023 DVB-C) with mplayer compiled from recent SVN, I get only
> sound, no video:
>
> MPlayer SVN-r30524-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
>
> Playing dvb://Das Erste HD.
> dvb_tune Freq: 362000000
> TS file format detected.
> NO VIDEO! AUDIO MPA(pid=6020) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0

You have to add PAT/PMT to your channels.conf (or use -demuxer lavf), in 
my case it looks like this:
... HIERARCHY_NONE:1010+101+1015:1011+1012+1013
(This is for Video+PAT+Subtitle:Audio1+Audio2+Audio3)

scan -c tells you the PAT while playing audio as above iirc.

Carl Eugen