[vdr] Re: packet size of recordings

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: packet size of recordings


> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> > To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:09 PM
> > Subject: [vdr] Re: packet size of recordings
> >
> > > Johannes Schoeller wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hi all!
> > > >
> > > > i want to optimize the transfer rate of my nfs based client (=vdr)
> > server
> > > > solution.
> > > > so my question is: what's the size of the packets transferred by
VDR.
> > > >
> > > > maybe the question is not asked right for network pros. :) so to
make it
> > a
> > > > bit clear: i want to read BIG files. but i don't read them at one,
but
> > in
> > > > small chunks. (more like streaming). and i would like to know how
big
> > these
> > > > chunks are.
> > >
> > > Take a look at VDR/remux.c. It produces packets of at most 2048 byte.
> > > But not all packets necessarily have that size, they may as well be
> > smaller.
> > >
> >
> > Does that mean you can influence packet-size by few changes in remux.c?
> >
> > Setting the packet-size to VOB-compliant value would make it unnecessary
to
> > repack for creating DVDs.
> >
> > This would be great ...
>
> You could try that by changing the value in remux.c. But be aware that
this
> is only the _maximum_ packet size - there may as well be smaller packets.
>

Is it possible to add some function, which sets a minimum packet size? (I
don't know the internals of DVB and MPEG, so I ask).

Rene



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