[vdr] Question about component descriptor association
Klaus Schmidinger
Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de
Sat Oct 8 11:17:49 CEST 2005
Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I stumbled across this line in eit.c
> Components->SetComponent(Components->NumComponents(),
> cd->getStreamContent(), cd->getComponentType(),
> and the corresponding code in menu.c:SetTrackDescriptions().
>
> Searching the mailinglist revealed only Klaus' message from February
>
>>>The PID data and the description are broadcast in two separate SI tables.
>>>So far the only way to corellate them seems to be the sequence in which
>>>they are given.
>
>
> Actually, the component descriptor from EIT and the stream identifier
> descriptor from PMT are associated via the component_tag.
>
> Is there a reason this is not used, or did it just slip attention?
> (It definitely slipped my attention when I skimmed the mail at that time)
>
> Anyway, the current solution is working pretty well, so this is low priority,
> but at least, if some stations are reversing the order but provide the
> required descriptors, we should not blame them.
>
> Marcel
So far VDR doesn't use the StreamIdentifierDescriptor.
Can you suggest where this would fit into VDR/pat.c?
Klaus
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