On Thursday 25 August 2005 18:34, Udo Richter wrote: > Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > > So converting from TS directly to PS would be the best choise.. ? > > TS still contains the timing information.. > > > > vdr has access to TS stream, so it could save in TS format, or convert to > > correct/synced PS format? > > VDR would have to convert TS to PES and back to TS to do this, as you > usually don't want to record everything on a transponder. ehm, why do a conversion? a ts can be generated by selecting pids of a service with demux.output = DMX_OUT_TS_TAP after adding the pids, just read and save the content of the dvr device. i think choosing PES as a storing format - causing incompatibilities with different playback solutions than vdr - was made, because the av7110 full featured dvb adapters are not able to act like normal set-top-box chips. they are not able to playback from a ts file directly. so internally the ts is converted and repacked by the driver. as these functions have got some race conditions that are not fixed (will they ever be?), imho there is no real chance to have ts in future. > Basically, there's no problem to convert the stream content between TS, > PS and PES, but as I said, VDR recordings are far from being a simple > video file. A straightforward conversion to PS will result in a PS video > that will drive most players crazy. TS stream players are more robust to > handle live streams, and even they sometimes loose A/V sync. > > Cheers, > > Udo > > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > regards marcel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050825/ad5173ae/attachment.pgp
