[MPlayer-users] MPEG-TS - plays video silently but can dumpaudio and play the result with mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:59:28AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:01:01AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> > Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote, on 11/02/14 05:29:
> > >Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh <at> internode.on.net> writes:
> > >
> > >>If you are still interested in chasing down the freeze
> > >>that I had using the mplayer I built from source and
> > >>trying just "mplayer filename.ts", could you let me
> > >>know what level of verbosity you want for the console
> > >>output ie the command line to use?
> 
> The "freeze" is just the libmad audio decoder behaving badly in
> case of decode errors.
> The underlying issue is that none of the MP2 decoders can
> decode the audio.
> I'd need a sample to understand exactly why though, there
> might have been something going wrong with the parser.

Oh, sorry. I now see that the issue is that without a PAT/PMT
MPlayer will fallback to assuming it contains MP2 audio,
though it really is AAC.
So the real issue is that libmad decoder fails in bad ways
that cause hangs instead of e.g. just silence.
Not sure this is specific to libmad actually though, so not
sure how easy that would be to fix (and maybe not worth it).