On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:54, Felix Domke wrote: > Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:29, Felix Domke wrote: > >>We have a special per-service flag, which has a meaning like "no DVB > >>service". If this flag is set, there will be no attempt to parse any DVB > >>tables, and just take the ES-Pids. We then invent a random SID, thus > >>having an arbitrary es-pid-combination which behaves like a service. > >>With this, we support stuff like feeds, with only minimal changes. > > > > Do you mean stuff like a feed from an mpeg2 encoder? > > With "feeds" I generally mean services which are setup to just transport > a video/audio stream over a satellite, not meant to be used by the user, > but for example to transfer raw, uncut footage or something to the studio. > > Sometimes they are encrypted, but most of the time they just use obscure > parameters so nobody finds them ;) > > They are MPEG2, as usual, but most of the time they have varying SIDs or > even no PMTs at all. What do you think of the pmt_extra idea I've just added to the wiki page? (BTW the URL is http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/File_Format_Comparison in case anyone missed it the first time/has lost it in the meantime)
