Re: How to play MPEG PS files?

Hi

maybe the following help you, if you can play the movies with mpv, the a 
plugin exist which can be integrated in vdr
the name is vdr-plugin-mpv, it's on github.

here is the URL
https://github.com/ua0lnj/vdr-plugin-mpv

i start the plugin with this parameters "-v gpu -a pipewire -h 
vaapi-copy -c x11egl -g 1920x1080 -b /media/sdb1/mkv"

the -b parameter is the starting directory for browsing.

Gerald

Am 11.01.25 um 18:50 schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
> Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
>>> I got some video files in MPEG PS format.
>>>
>> Have you tried VLC ?
>
> Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I thought that when I ask 
> this on the VDR mailing list, it would be clear that I would like to 
> play such files in VDR, by selecting them from the Recordings menu, or 
> from a menu that is generated by a VDR plugin, similar to the DVD 
> plugin which I remember trying some 20 years ago.
>
> Yes, VLC is great for playing various files, including the two forms 
> of recordings that VDR generates (001.vdr for MPEG PES in older VDR, 
> and 00001.ts for MPEG TS). But I would like to play the files not on a 
> general-purpose computer, but on my VDR box, that is, a Raspberry Pi 2 
> or 3 via the rpihddevice plugin. The GPU firmware is capable of 
> decoding the video packets. With a multi-terabyte SSD, it makes a very 
> compact and silent "video jukebox" system.
>
>> I'm not very fluent in the various container formats... could it be 
>> that the file is really in a "transport stream" format, maybe with a 
>> limited/filtered subset of PID's ?
>
> The files that I would like to play back are not in MPEG TS but in 
> MPEG PS format. As a test, I converted one of them into an MPEG TS 
> container (ffmpeg -i file.mpg -codec copy 00001.ts). FFMPEG complained 
> about some missing timestamp information, and VDR indicates that there 
> are several errors per second. The playback seemed to be fine 
> nevertheless.
>
> It would be great if there was a way to make MPEG PS containers appear 
> in a VDR menu so that they could be selected for playback. I know that 
> I could convert the MPEG PS files to slightly malformed MPEG TS files, 
> but I would like to avoid that step.
>
>     Marko