On 06/29/07 10:13, Stefan Taferner wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 22:00:02 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 06/28/07 21:53, Luca Olivetti wrote: > [...] >> Maybe some broadcasters aren't even aware that they are not >> adhering to the DVB standard. So let's all call them and tell >> them about it. The more people call and complain, the better >> the chances things get fixed (at least that's what I'd hope for ;-). >> Building workarounds into receivers is certainly not the right >> way to go (even though it is, of course, a quick fix and may be >> sufficient for some users). > > My patch is not meant to be a solution, rather a temporary fix until > the problem is solved somehow. > > I have some experience with emails. There you have standards too, > but the email clients not always follow the rules. What you have > to do is to work around all these quirks. > > Of course calling the broadcaster is the right way, but until they fix it > it would be helpful to have a workaround. There will be broken > broadcasts anyways - I doubt that we can get all broadcasters to > obey the standard. > > What I was thinking of is to make the default encoding configurable. > A commandline option comes into mind, or using the default > encoding from the language settings. > > The ultimative solution would be to make it configurable per > station, of course. But that would require much more work and adds > complexity, and it is probably not necessary for most of us. That would be the ultimate *workaround*. The ultimate *solution* is to make the providers follow the standard. Let's try pestering the providers until they fix this on their end. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
