[linux-dvb] Re: Grabbing the whole transponder?

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 22 Nov 2004 22:12, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What would be the best way to grab a whole transponder?  Do I really
> need to open the demuxer and setup a filter for every stream I want?
> That means I would need to know in advance what PIDs are available
> from the transponder.  I would prefer to just get everything and
> do the filtering in user-land.

If you're using a budget card, there is a special PID, 0x2000 which will 
return the whole stream. 

If you're using a FF card, then I don't think you can get everything - I 
_think_ I remember people mentioning there is a bandwidth limit imposed by 
the onboard processor.