[vdr] Re: thanks for channelsradio.conf, but...

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Dave Chapman wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 03 February 2002 11:15, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Well, I guess with VPID = 1 you are actually recording video data,
> > which I guess is not what you really want - or am I wrong here?
> 
> As you know, the PID is a 13 bit value in the TS headers - i.e. in the range
> 0...8191.  PIDs 0, 1 and 2 and 16-20 (and possibly other values) are reserved
> for the service information and will never contain video or audio (but will
> contain data).
> 
> I would suggest that whatever special PID you reserve for "no video", you
> check for it when you are setting the filters and don't set a video filter on
> that PID.  A PID of 0 would seem to be the easiest and also the most logical.
> 
> Another thing to remember - the driver uses the dummy PID value of "8192" to
> get the entire TS from a budget card so you don't want to set that PID in
> normal use.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave.

Using '0' would appear to be the most logical choice (having the real meaning
of "no video").

@Uwe Scheffler: can you confirm that your radio channels still work if you use
'0' instead of '1' or '8191'? Of course you will have to adapt the patch
accordingly, but I guess you already did that when using '1'...

Klaus
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