Daniel THOMPSON wrote: > Hi Folks > > I (along with some other folks at my company) are developing a LinuxDVB > implementation for one of our devices. Since VDR (combined with vdr-dvd) > is one of the most feature complete applications targeting this API we > have been using it a one of our reference clients. > > One of the aspects of VDR's behaviour that surprised me is that it never > sets the audio stream type (AUDIO_SET_STREAMTYPE or > AUDIO_SET_ATTRIBUTES). This leaves the LinuxDVB implementation to guess > the stream type from its contents or its PES headers. > > Is the absence of the above LinuxDVB operations from VDR an oversight > because the existing full-featured cards don't need them or have these > calls been deliberately omitted? VDR simply writes the video and audio data to the device - apparently at least with the FF cards nothing else is necessary. After all, the device that plays the data _has_ to intepret the data, so why should an application do that, too? > Would patches to introduce them be > accepted? Where would that information come from? Klaus
