[vdr] Re: TS on full-featured DVB-card?

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Samstag, 26. April 2003 10:54 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after reading this in a mail on linuxdvb-ML
> >
> > "AFAIK, if you feed to the dmx device the command "dmx_set_pes_filter"
> > with the value 8192 (actually this is an invalid PID number because it
> > is represented on 14 bits, and PID is represented on 13 bits), the
> > driver interprets this value as "do not filter anything", and it just
> > copies everything to the demuxN device.
> > So this way you get your full transport stream.
> >
> > Aurelian"
> >
> > I'd like to know if VDR does this or if the TS is still filtered (which
> > means a limited number of recordings on a Transponder ...)
>
> VDR only sets those PIDs it actually needs to record the current timers.
> Besides, AFAIK only the "budget cards" can provide the entire TS. The
> full featured cards can't do that (this may have changed at some point, but
> I'm not aware of such a change).

I don't think either that this is possible, because some guys are patching 
their card (read: not any soft, they make hardware modification) to be able 
to get full TS out of a full featured card (I can't say why they do that, 
read linux-dvb mail archive)

Steffen


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