[vdr] streamplayer - no audio when streaming audio only?

[Udo Richter]

Lars Fredriksson wrote:
> I'm trying to use VLC to stream an mms:// as MPGA to my VDR-box where I
> have installed the streamplayer plugin, but I get no sound!
> 
> Streamplyer says it's receiving a stream and the bitrate show, the
> buffering value goes up to the value a specify and the starts over from
> 0 again.

The problem is that the current (primitive) code waits forever to detect 
a video packet to know its PID. Audio-only streams are not yet really 
supported.

One workaround is to mix in some video dummy stream, another is to fool 
the detection: If you first play a short video clip, and then start the 
audio stream, streamplayer already has found a PID for video and 
continues playing even if no video data arrives. This should work even 
if the http stream reconnects, just exiting and re-starting streamplayer 
will trigger a new detection.

Cheers,

Udo