[linux-dvb] Re: Any need for gszap?

[Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Niklas Peinecke wrote:

> Holger Waechtler wrote:
>
> > Niklas Peinecke wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've seen the EOF problem also. I got the impression that it is 
> > > speed related, i.e. if there is heavy load on the machine EOF occurs 
> > > more frequently. Nevertheless if you pipe the stream to a file and 
> > > then replay, there are no problems. Maybe the driver replays values 
> > > <0 through /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 (don't know if this is possible)?
> >
> >
> > no, it's not. You get the raw unmodified data from air through the 
> > dvr device. Data is only lost in case of buffer overflows, but the 
> > MPEG decoder should be able to tolerate corrupted MPEG packets silently.
> >
> > Holger
> Yes, but in which cases would there be an EOF generated when reading 
> from a _device_? When there is no data (written by the driver) then 
> mplayer should just stop and wait for data instead of exiting and 
> reproting end of file.
>
> Niklas
EOF may also happen when the demuxer didn't find anything to push to the 
ES buffers (returns 0 => mplayer quits).


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