[linux-dvb] Re: DVB and dual audio

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>]

"Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net> writes:

> From: "Gerd Knorr" <kraxel@bytesex.org>
> > Ondrej Zima <amiandrew@volny.cz> writes:
> > > I have problem to select audio channel if the broadcast is in dual
> > > languages. It plays from the left audio channel the native language
> > > and from right the original language.
> >
> > Uh, thats a pretty strange way to broadcast dual-language ...
> 
> No, it's not. This has been provisioned in the MPEG audio standard right
> from the start.

That it is in the MPEG audio standard is nice, so I know where to
look, thanks for the hint.  That doesn't make it less strange though,
with DVB there are much better ways to handle that ...

I think it would me much more useful to just send a second audio
stream like it's done for arte.  You can broadcast both channels in
stereo then.  You can also trivially signal the language of the audio
stream then using descriptors in the pmt and do fancy stuff with that.
Let the user chose it's favorite language for example.

  Gerd

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