[MPlayer-users] Trouble with HD-PVR recordings

[Daniel Ranger]

> This is an h264/ac-3 file in MPEG-TS.  If I play this sample using the
> normal mpegts demuxer, then performance is bad.  So I tried using the
> lavf demuxer but I got the following error:
> 
h264/ac-3 would be recorded using the S/PDIF audio input.
Have you tried using the RCA instead?
You can force it when you load the driver as explained here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR#Miscellaneous_Kernel_Module_Options

I personally have no issues on my side, but I use the RCA which produces an
h264/AAC stream instead (non-5.1).

> mplayer -vo vdpau:deint=1 -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau -ao alsa
> -correct-pts xbox-sample.ts
> 
Mine looks like this:

cat /dev/video0 | mplayer - -vo vdpau:deint=0 -vc ffh264vdpau -mc 0 -delay 2.1
-cache 8192

Try adding the -cache 8192, I need it for playing the live stream from my
HD-PVR but I can omit it when playing a saved ts file such as when I cat
/dev/video0 > test.ts for example.

I use cat /dev/video0 so I can simply add | tee test.ts to save to file at the
same time.

PS: I know deint=0 sucks so when I re-encode I use -vf yadif=2 but for live
streaming deint=0 or -vf field=0 (when not using VDPAU) is good to me.

> Or with the lavf demuxer:
> 
> mplayer -vo vdpau:deint=1 -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau -ao alsa
> -correct-pts -demuxer lavf xbox-sample.ts
> 
I don't use the lavf dexumer since I have no issues but it also works for me.

> My system specs (if it helps):
> 
> MPlayer SVN-r29435-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

I run SVN-r29438.
My launchpad PPA is at https://launchpad.net/~dranger003/+archive/ppa if you
want to try the same mplayer I'm using.

Hopefully you'll sort this out.

Dan