On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, christophpfister@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > It seems that the time has come to develop a new channel format for > dvb-apps. Andrew and I agreed on the following style, but comments / > suggestions / opinions are always welcome ;) There should be a parameter for the PID of the PMT. Even if you know the PIDs of the audio and video streams, there is still information in the PMT that is useful. For example, without the PMT mplayer will try to auto-detect the format of the audio stream. This causes frequent audio skips on some stations. This has a lot to do with the stupidness of mplayer TS demuxer, and I've fixed my mplayer to virtually eliminate this problem. But it's still true that there is information like language descriptors, conditional access descriptors, stream format, etc. in the PMT that is part of the channel. It is very common for channels to have multiple audio streams. I don't see anything about how this is handled. Multiple audio_pid lines? Multiple pids listed on one audio_pid line? Is there any way to associate a language with an audio pid? Which audio pid should be the default? The first one? Can PIDs be specified in hex? It seems like all the tools that print PIDs print them in hex. Modulation should be mandatory for ATSC. Can a channel have multiple names? I'd like to be able to refer to channels both by their number and the broadcaster's name. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
