[mpeg2] Re: MPEG-1 (Was: Re: Re: Kfir and Windoze)

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Lawrence Gold writes:
 > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:48:13PM +0100, Hakan Lennestal wrote:
 > > Speaking of MPEG-1, what are the chanses of getting working MPEG-1
 > > with the linux driver ? Is the source of the problem known ?
 > 
 > The best I've been able to do so far is getting sound working but no
 > video.  The key was to set streamtype to 7 (the "system" streamtype,
 > whatever that means).  This mode and one other are the only ones for which
 > the Windows app allows you to set MPEG-1.

MPEG-1 normally always comes in system streams. Should be described 
in the MPEG-1 specs.

 > I'm hoping that the Linux driver is just using settings which don't make
 > sense for MPEG-1, so I'm trying to fiddle with the defaults in kfir.c.  If
 > I have any luck, I'll post the changes to the list...

It is just the settings. I checked a new version into CVS last night
which will produce something closer to MPEG-1 but also is not perfect
yet. I have no sample settings for MPEG1 for the KFir. If you have any
please tell me where I can find them.


Ralph