My cable provider sends some HD test streams over DVB-C. One of them is HDForum, a French test loop in H264. I used to be able to watch it using Nicos -tsvformat patch (mplayer dvb://HDFORUM -tsvformat 0x10000005). Since a few days, it's not possible anymore to watch the stream: MPlayer crashes after showing a few obviously broken frames with the following errors. The crash also happens, when I use AVC instead of H264 by patching the source. The only difference seems to be that AVC waits with the video until the AV delay has gone: This was very useful when watching was still possible! I found a German website describing exactly the same problems receiving the program directly from satellite. They claim it's possible to watch the stream with elecard avcplugin: http://forum.dxtv.de/wbb/thread.php?threadid=4774 Since it's only a testprogram, it's not particularly important to be able to watch - I just thought the sample might be useful. Thank you, Carl Eugen Hoyos ce AT hoyos DOT ws (TPS is HDForum) $ ./mplayer dvb://TPS -tsvformat 0x10000005 MPlayer dev-CVS-060404-00:53-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Sempron/Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred; Duron Applebred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Playing dvb://TPS. code taken from dvbstream for mplayer v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001 Released under the GPL. Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/ dvb_tune Freq: 834000000 Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32//avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll TS file format detected. DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -2, PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0 VIDEO MPEG2(pid=2001)AUDIO MPA(pid=2010) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0 Opened TS demuxer, audio: 50(pid 2010), video: 10000002(pid 2001)...POS=108664, PROBE=2000000 FPS seems to be: 25.000000 File not found: '/home/cehoyos/.mplayer/default.sub' Failed to open /home/cehoyos/.mplayer/default.sub ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 3060 DC, 3060 AC, 3060 MV errors VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1088 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.76:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 1440x1088 => 1920x1088 Planar YV12 aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found! [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 9 0 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 9 0 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 63 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 63 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 10 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 10 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 69 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 69 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5835 DC, 5835 AC, 5835 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 28 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 28 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 15 17 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 15 17 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5025 DC, 5025 AC, 5025 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 24 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 24 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 10 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 10 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 41 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 41 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 36 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 36 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 6070 DC, 6070 AC, 6070 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 30 0 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 30 0 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 53 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 53 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 43 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 43 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5515 DC, 5515 AC, 5515 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]left block unavailable for requested intra mode at 0 8 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 0 8 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 14 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 14 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5546 DC, 5546 AC, 5546 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 62 0 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 62 0 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 26 17 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 26 17 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5720 DC, 5720 AC, 5720 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]left block unavailable for requested intra mode at 0 27 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 0 27 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 21 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 21 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5341 DC, 5341 AC, 5341 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 15 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 15 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 20 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 20 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5383 DC, 5383 AC, 5383 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1 at 50 17 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 50 17 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5696 DC, 5696 AC, 5696 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 71 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 71 5 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 31 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 31 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 20 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 20 28 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]concealing 5939 DC, 5939 AC, 5939 MV errors [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 21 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 21 11 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]top block unavailable for requested intra mode at 80 22 [h264 @ 0x87261c8]error while decoding MB 80 22 MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. 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