[Live-devel] VLC and stb don\'t play \"trick play\" streams

Josh Norell josh at kci.net
Wed Apr 16 13:34:22 PDT 2008


For what it's worth, this problem seems to be only on the amino 110. The
amino 125/130's fast forward/backward pretty well, aside from some
stuttering upon resuming normal play scale.

Josh

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 14:40 +0200, s_animal at aon.at wrote:
> hello ross,
> 
> as far as i know no stb, we use amino and adb, does rescan on pmt.
> i think the best way to make it easier is to set vpid in trickplay to the value of original vpid. 
> 
> br
> 
> siegfried
> 
> ----- Original von:  Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>:
> 
> > >If you change the video pid in ts to 0xe0 then the indexer it will work.
> >The problem is it use always vpid 0xe0 in case of trickplay and for speed 1
> >the original vpid and amino doesn\'t read the pmt again.
> 
> This is very interesting.  Can anyone else (who\'s having problems 
> playing our \'trick play\' streams on an Amino STB) confirm this - 
> i.e., that changing the video pid to 0xE0 in the original TS file 
> solves the problem?
> 
> If this is true, then it should also be possible to solve the problem 
> by using the original TS file\'s video pid (instead of 0xE0) in the 
> generated \'trick play\' TS stream.  (It would be possible to change 
> the trick play generation code to take a desired video pid as 
> parameter.)
> 
> A better solution, though, would be to change the resulting TS stream 
> in some way so as to persuade the Amino STB to read the PMT for the 
> \'trick play\' stream (and then again when we go back to the normal 1x 
> stream).  Does anyone know if this is possible?



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