Re: DVB Playback Issues

Hi!

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Derek Ivey wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time to write that very thorough response. I tried 
> your suggestions and I'm still having issues. I compiled liba52 and 
> recompiled mplayer. I also noticed that I was missing my 
> /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf file, so I copied it from the source.

Whereever you put codecs.conf, please remove it, it can only hurt.

Concerning your audio problems:
If you use "mplayer dvb://WGAL-DT -dumpstream", is your audio problem 
reproducible with the resulting file stream.dump?
If yes, please provide such a sample.

> Here are some of the commands I ran and their output.
>
> No Sound:
> root@slackware:~# DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/mplayer -fs -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau -ao alsa:device=hdmi -afm ffmpeg -ac -hwac3 dvb://WGAL-DT

Do I understand correctly that your screen (or whatever is connected to 
"hdmi") does not accept ac3 input?
If yes, this should be:
-ac -hwac3,-spdifac3,
(Note the "," at the end)
And you should put this in ~/.mplayer/config as "ac=-hwac2,-spdifac3,"

Note that you must not use "menu=yes" from Bill's suggestions together 
with -vc ffmpeg12vdpau, VDPAU does not like the menu!

And of course: Please try -cache 10000 or pause&release or seek-back to 
fix the issues. I often need one of those three for HD channels.

Carl Eugen