[MPlayer-users] Re: TiVo Enabled Mplayer

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I think you are missing the point.  I wasn't refering to mplayer in
general, I was refering to my code changes to support TiVo ty streams.

If you do a bit of research on these type of streams (which you
haven't), you'll see there can be significant issues with invalid video/audio 
ES packets and with highly skewed PTS.  These problems can cause the 
MPEG2 decoder in mplayer to crash hard (ie Sig11).

There is a significant processing overhead to repair tystreams.  I didn't
want to burden mplayer with these repairs while playing.  It would
be more processing effective to take that really bad stream and pass
it through a repair program such as tydemux and get a true PES stream.  
One should also note that the number of really bad streams is really low.

Does this make sense or is it still silly to you?



> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:27:22AM -0800, usenet at wingert.org wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Information (and Beta) here.
> > 
> > http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22972
> 
> Hmm, from the notes:
> 
> "-Fixing 2% of the actual streams, that are broken, is not my goal
> with these modifications, mplayer is not a player for bad streams."
> 
> This sounds sort of silly, since AFAIK MPlayer is about the only
> player than handled broken streams...
> 
> Rich