Re: [PATCH 2/2] v4l-utils: fixed dvbv5 vdr format

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Em Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:49:27 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Hi Markus,
> 
> Em Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:52:19 +0200
> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
> > From: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > From: Heiser, Markus <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The vdr format was broken, I got '(null)' entries
> > 
> > HD:11494:S1HC23I0M5N1O35:S:(null):22000:5101:5102,5103,5106,5108:0:0:10301:0:0:0:
> > 0-:1----:2--------------:3:4-----:
> > 
> > refering to the VDR Wikis ...
> > 
> > * LinuxTV: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Syntax_of_channels.conf
> > * german comunity Wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Channels.conf#Parameter_ab_VDR-1.7.4
> > 
> > There is no field at position 4 / in between "Source" and "SRate" which
> > might have a value. I suppose the '(null):' is the result of pointing
> > to *nothing*.
> > 
> > An other mistake is the ending colon (":") at the line. It is not
> > explicit specified but adding an collon to the end of an channel entry
> > will prevent players (like mpv or mplayer) from parsing the line (they
> > will ignore these lines).
> > 
> > At least: generating a channel list with
> > 
> >   dvbv5-scan --output-format=vdr ...
> > 
> > will result in the same defective channel entry, containing "(null):"
> > and the leading collon ":".  
> 
> Sorry for taking too long to handle that. I usually stop handling
> patches one week before the merge window, returning to merge only
> after -rc1. This time, it took a little more time, due to the Sphinx
> changes, as I was needing some patches to be merged upstream, in order
> to change my handling scripts to work with the new way.
> 
> Anyway, with regards to this patch, not sure if you saw, but
> Chris Mayo sent us a different fix for it:
> 
> 	https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/35803/
> 
> With is meant to support VDR format as used on version 2.2. Not sure
> if this format is backward-compatible with versions 1.x, but usually
> VDR just adds new parameters to the lines.
> 
> So, I'm inclined to merge Chris patch instead of yours.
> 
> So, could you please test if his patch does what's needed?

PS.: If the formats for v 1.x are not compatible with the ones for
v2.x, then the best would be to change the code to add a new format
for vdr v2.x, while keep supporting vdr v1.x.



Thanks,
Mauro
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