[FFmpeg-user] Encoding/Streaming MPEG-TS with PIDs changing over time (DVB-S Source)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

RFZ <andreasbernhofer <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Is there a way to handle changing PIDs (e.g. 
> force ffmpeg /mpegts demuxer to rescan PMT 
> from time to time)?

This is the default behaviour.

The problem is:
How should ffmpeg (the application) know that 
you changed the program and that the new data 
it receives is not just data that should be 
ignored?
(It is not unusual that program streams contain 
several programs, one is chosen on startup.)

You would have to signal that you want to change 
the recorded signal just as you signaled it to 
the DVB receiving application.
It is possible (likely) that ffmpeg (the application) 
does not currently support changing programs, but 
MPlayer (and ffplay) of course support it, so it 
is just a question of option reading.

The second problem is of course: How to signal 
something to ffmpeg, but I believe this is 
actually possible, some information is shown 
in the status line iirc.

Carl Eugen