diff --git a/libavformat/mpegts.c b/libavformat/mpegts.c
index c6fd3e1cef..1da81a0fe6 100644
--- a/libavformat/mpegts.c
+++ b/libavformat/mpegts.c
@@ -2352,7 +2352,7 @@ static void pmt_cb(MpegTSFilter *filter, const uint8_t *section, int section_len
         goto out;
 
     // stop parsing after pmt, we found header
-    if (!ts->stream->nb_streams)
+    if (!ts->pkt)
         ts->stop_parse = 2;
 
     set_pmt_found(ts, h->id);