[linux-dvb] Re: WANTED : KaxTV testers

[Mike Lampard <mike@secnet.net.au>]

Hi Soyeb, All,
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:33, Soyeb Aswat wrote:
> I get similar problems, where KaxTV will work for
> various amounts of time and then inexplicably crash.
>
> I've got a question, since xine-lib doesn't seem to
> have dvb support, 

FYI:
Actually, xine-lib does indeed have dvb support.  current versions of the dvb 
plugin include support for current/next EPG and there is now a dvb subtitle 
plugin based on Dave Chapmans work also.  

KaxTV doesn't use the xine dvb plugin, and probably has more features, due to 
it's dedicated nature, but the latest cvs versions of xine can be used as a 
dvb viewer/recorder just fine.

> I imagine KaxTV handles all the DVB 
> stuff, leaving xine-lib to decode the mpeg stream.  If
> this is the case then where does KaxTV get its DVB
> interface definition from?  Could it be that KaxTV is
> picking up my older DVB definitions from the kernel
> source tree which are much older than the relatively
> recent DVB drivers I'm using, and hence causing random
> incompatibilities that result in crashes?
>
> Could it be that I have no idea what I'm talking about
> and writing far off topic?
>
> Otherwise I think KaxTV is mega (except I can't use it
> for very long).
>
> Regards,
>
> Soyeb
>
>  --- Jim Darby <jim@jimbocorp.uklinux.net> wrote:
> > I've been playing with Christophe's new kaxtv.
> >
> > It's as cool as every and well onto the way to be a
> > KILLER application.
> >
> > However, I've just missed part of a programme I
> > wanted to watch because
> > it crashed out half way through.
> >
> > I wasn't watching it live, it was just recording to
> > a TS file and half
> > way through it crashed out. Very annoying.
> >
> > This is the one single thing stopping me from using
> > kaxtv for
> > everything.
> >
> > Now, I've got a pretty marginal DVB-T signal and
> > it's quite common to
> > get transmission errors. I suspect something in the
> > data stream is
> > causing kaxtv to crash.
> >
> > So, what processing is done on a DVB data stream
> > when recording to a TS
> > file? Something in there needs a little extra
> > robustness.
> >
> > I'd be delighted to help out with this.
> >
> > Keep up the good work Christophe, we're almost
> > there!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jim.
> > --
> > Jim Darby <jim@jimbocorp.uklinux.net>
> > The Jimbo Corporation
>
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Regards
Mike