Re: bug in xine-lib 1.1.8 - no german audio stream within bilingual DVB-S television (example: arte on Astra 19.2 E, frequency 11836)

I demand that Uwe Bugla may or may not have written...

> Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 17:14:15 schrieb Christophe Thommeret:
>> Le mardi 25 septembre 2007 16:58, Uwe Bugla a écrit :
>>> I am using xine-lib 1.1.8-1 within latest Debian Sid.

>>> There is one bug I already mentioned which is not fixed yet.

>>> Using xine-ui 0.99.5+cvs20070914-1 and gxine 0.5.11-3 for watching DVB-S
>>> television I get only the french audio audio stream watching Arte on
>>> Astra-19.2 E with frequency 11836.

>>> Trying to switch to german audio stream within latest xine-ui
>>> results in no audio at all.

>>> Using gxine 0.5.11-3 for the same the default language is French too.
>>> Should be German instead, at least for frequency 11836.
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>> demux-ts picks the first audio pid it finds.

> Sorry, but this sounds quite confusing and misleading :(

There's nothing confusing or misleading about it (that I can see).

> The audio PID for arte on 11836, Astra 19.2, is 402. Normal behaviour for
> that channel on that frequency is GERMAN as default audio stream, not
> FRENCH!!

One audio PID for this channel => one audio stream => not a bug.

> Normal behaviour for arte on frequency 11567, Astra 19.2 is FRENCH, audio
> PID is 136.

One audio PID for this channel => one audio stream => not a bug.

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> As this problem does not appear neither with mplayer nor with kaffeine, the
> bug MUST result in xine-ui and nowhere else!

Do you *really* mean that xine-ui is a consequence of this bug? :-)

> A. On whatever frequency f. ex. arte appears there must be the chance to
> change the audio stream within the GUI (f. ex. xine-ui) if the channel is
> bilingual or even trilingual (f. ex. the Luxembourg TV channels).

There is. It's called "changing channel".

> B. This change ought to be set graphically in xine-ui, as it is set 
> graphically in gmplayer also.

See the playlist :-)

ISTM that (unless these two channels have at any time different video
content) both instances of 'arte' should be broadcast as one channel with one
video stream and *two* audio streams.

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