[mythtv-users] A very simple VCD, SVCD (and DVD) player script for the PVR-350 decoder

[Torsten Schenkel]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:24, Isaac Richards wrote:

> Looked into things a tiny bit more, and it seems the problem with VCDs is that 
> they have quite a bit of empty data at the beginning of the raw stream.  If I 
> strip off that data before feeding it to the 'mythtv' player program, it 
> works just fine =)  Shouldn't be difficult to do while probing the file 
> format...

I just found another possibility to read the mpg from vcd/svcd: vcdxrip
in the vcdimager package. This has a valid mpeg file as output that
plays with mythtv. Mythtv still isn't stable (or ivtv) on that files,
lots of ffw/rew/skipping makes it freeze (only picture, not kernel), but
it's promising. 

> It recognized the file format fine on the few DVDs that I tried, though 
> multiple audio streams _really_ confuses the player.  

Mythtv or the decoder? splicer plays my dvds (dumped streams) fine, but
without audio. I need to get a dvd that has stereo as first track not
ac3.

Torsten