[linux-dvb] hdtv scanning

[Michael Müllner]

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> matthieu castet wrote:
>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>> matthieu castet wrote:
>>>
>>>> matthieu castet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does somebody know why "scan" dvb-util or vdr failed to parse 
>>>>> video pid of hdtv stream ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why a patch like the attached one couldn't be added ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> After some reflexion, a new category (video hd) should be created : 
>>>> dvb apps using channel file need to know if it is a mpeg2 or h264 
>>>> video as they already does it for audio (mp2 vs ac3).
>>>
>>>
>>> We don't need that, because there is always only *one* video track,
>>> as opposed to audio, where there can be both mpeg and ac3.
>>>
>> Yes but in order to know the video type we need the PMT.
>>
>> But IIRC the current policy is to use the PMT only to make 
>> channel.conf and then to use channel.conf.
>>
>> So etheir you add more information in channel.conf (video encoding),
>> etheir a more sane solution (which is done by mythtv AFAIK) is to put 
>> in channel.conf only tuning information + service_id + extra 
>> information (name, ...) and when you swith to a channel, you use PAT 
>> to discover your channel PMT pid, and you use PMT to discover media 
>> (video, audio, ...) pids and types (mpeg2, h264, ...).
>
> I don't like that because when I switch to a channel I don't want to
> first have to parse all kinds of tables, that would slow down channel
> switching.
>
>> The second solution is also usefull when recording channel, because 
>> player will need PMT or something that describe the content of the 
>> stream.
>
> Is the fact that a stream is coded in H.264 not stored on the (P)ES data?
>
>> PS : do you plan something for VDR ?
>
> Sure, once the driver supports DVB-S2 ;-)
Why wait ? there are also H264 over dvb-s :)

Mike
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> Klaus
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