[linux-dvb] Re: AC3 over DVB

[Nico Sabbi <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:56:42AM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  
> > mplayer reportedly works with ac3/dvb passthrough, both when you have 
> > PAT and PMT
> > and when they are not available, provided that ac3 frames are aligned
> > to PES boundaries.
> > Please, run  mplayer -v dvb://<YOUR_TVSTASTION>  >& log.txt
> > and send me log.txt.
> >
> > If you upload a sample to ftp://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming and 
> > tell me the filename
> > I will give it a look.
> >    
> OK will try that. How do you suggest getting a recording - just cat
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 to file?
>
>  
yes, unmodified is always better :)
or

mplayer  dvb://<YOUR_TVSTASTION> -dumpfile recording.ts -dumpstream
(that is still TS)


> Hamish
>  
Nico