Maybe off topic now when we know that there is no real need to define a new format, but I have a problem that maybe someone have an answer to. The Cartoon Network sent here in the Nordics includes two Audio PIDs, one with Swedish/Danish and one with Norwegian/English. Yes, two mono channels in one stereo PID. My old Nokia 90xx handles this. My Dreambox doesn't. And the Linux applications doesn't. Is this a rare Nordic problem or is there a solution to this? Of course I can mute the right channel but as my old Nokia box could handle this it should be a way to handle this in the Linux applications as well. -- Peter Fassberg Leissner Data AB Sweden On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Trent Piepho wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
