Andrew de Quincey wrote: > 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) I like the idea, though I have a comment to the zap_pids first: I don't like the special order of these, as for example, a service could use DTS (right now there are only test streams), and then we need to fix the file format, which we of course want to avoid. So why not use a pid:type there, like for pmt_extra? A problem i see for the pmt_extra is that it can never represent a full PMT entry (for example: CA descriptors). But i don't think we should want this, as i can't image something useful. However, just using the PMT-type won't work. AC3 channels have the same type as Videotext ("private" iirc.), and for DTS you have a descriptor with an ascii ID. We still need some per-service "flags", for example to disable PAT/PMT parsing (to rely only on the pmt_extra stuff). Felix
