Attached sample (first 2,5MB of a 1GB sample) is correctly autodetected as mpeg-ts by MPlayer's native demuxer, FFmpeg's mpegts probe function does not return a positive value.
$ ffmpeg -loglevel 99 -i dump.ts
ffmpeg version N-33932-g415f3ce, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 22 2011 02:35:58 with gcc 4.5.3
configuration: --cc=/usr/local/gcc-4.5.3/bin/gcc
libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
libavcodec 53. 23. 0 / 53. 23. 0
libavformat 53. 17. 0 / 53. 17. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 44. 1 / 2. 44. 1
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] Format mpeg probed with size=524288 and score=52
[mp1 @ 0x137fc80] Header missing
Last message repeated 23 times
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] pes_ext 4B is invalid
[mp1 @ 0x137fc80] Header missing
Last message repeated 26 times
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] pes_ext FF is invalid
[mp1 @ 0x137fc80] Header missing
Last message repeated 76 times
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] Invalid timestamps stream=0, pts=5751558783, dts=8589934591, size=5809
[mp1 @ 0x137fc80] Header missing
Last message repeated 49 times
...
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] pes_ext FD is invalid
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] Invalid timestamps stream=0, pts=6130997887, dts=8589934591, size=5809
[mpeg @ 0x1379780] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
Input #0, mpeg, from 'dump.ts':
Duration: N/A, start: 47721.858833, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0[0x1d3], 3340, 1/90000: Audio: mp1, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
$ ffmpeg -loglevel 99 -f mpegts -i dump.ts
ffmpeg version N-33932-g415f3ce, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 22 2011 02:35:58 with gcc 4.5.3
configuration: --cc=/usr/local/gcc-4.5.3/bin/gcc
libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
libavcodec 53. 23. 0 / 53. 23. 0
libavformat 53. 17. 0 / 53. 17. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 44. 1 / 2. 44. 1
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[mpegts @ 0x13797c0] stream=0 stream_type=1b pid=6e prog_reg_desc=CUEI
[mpegts @ 0x13797c0] stream=1 stream_type=86 pid=8c prog_reg_desc=CUEI
[mpegts @ 0x13797c0] stream=2 stream_type=81 pid=64 prog_reg_desc=CUEI
[ac3 @ 0x13a7d80] Unsupported bit depth: 0
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] no frame!
[h264 @ 0x139b3c0] Frame num gap 2 0
[mpegts @ 0x13797c0] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5024000
rfps: 59.940060 0.000000
[NULL @ 0x13a18a0] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
Input #0, mpegts, from 'dump.ts':
Duration: 00:00:52.20, start: 72733.803344, bitrate: 49034 kb/s
Program 1
Metadata:
service_name : Reelz Channel
service_provider:
Stream #0:0[0x6e], 309, 1/90000: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1001/120000, 61.56 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x8c], 0, 1/90000: Unknown: none ([134][0][0][0] / 0x0086)
Stream #0:2[0x64], 159, 1/90000: Audio: ac3 ([129][0][0][0] / 0x0081), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
