Re: Support for New Zealand H.264 DVB-T streams

Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 10:22:48 Nico Sabbi ha scritto:
> Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 10:19:09 Igor ha scritto:
> > > Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 07:41:52 Igor ha scritto:
> > > > > My biggest problem was realizing I needed to include the
> > > > > PMT information in the channels.conf file as this doesn't
> > > > > appear to be documented anywhere.
> > > >
> > > > from MPlayer DOCs
> > > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html
> > > > In your audio and video fields you can use an extended
> > > > syntax: ...:pid[+pid]:... (for a maximum of 6 pids each); in
> > > > this case MPlayer will include in the stream all the
> > > > indicated pids, plus pid 0 (that contains the PAT). You are
> > > > encouraged to include in each row the PMT pid for the
> > > > corresponding channel (if you know it). You can also specify
> > > > 8192, this will select all pids on this frequency and you can
> > > > then switch between the programs with TAB. This might need
> > > > more bandwidth, though cheap cards always transfer all
> > > > channels at least to the kernel so it does not make much of a
> > > > difference for these. Other possible uses are: televideo pid,
> > > > second audio track, etc.
> > >
> > > a quick fix is to always pid 8192 and use TAB to cycle through
> > > channels
> >
> > yes, but this method can't work with dvb-s2 modulation yet.
>
> because mplayer doesn't have support for multiprotocol API
> (a deficiency in the tuning api). You also know the reason ...

BTW, IIRC you wrote in linux-dvb that dvb-s2 uses multiple transport
streams  rather than a single one.
If so it's probably a nightmare to handle.
Do I remember correctly? Can you elaborate?