switching audio channels in xine-ui

Hi,

when xine-ui addresses a Video DVD containing more than one audio tracks
in different languages you can easily switch between several audio
tracks.

My idea / deapest wish would be to integrate a similar audio track
switching possibility for xine-ui addressing DVB TV.

As you all know there are several digital TV stations being spread
that are bilingual or even trilingual.
At the same time xine-ui is definitely capable of addressing a
channels.conf in vdr format (as opposed to mplayer which is NOT capable
of doing that).

But if you address a channels.conf in vdr format which owes more than
one audio PID separated by a comma using xine-ui, only the first audio
PID is automatically taken.
No chance to change / switch the audio channel of the broadcast!

I would appreciate someone reading that being technically more capable
than I am to offer us a patch for making this audio channel switching
function available.
Please do not offer me nonsense answers like "use kaffeine please!" or
similar. I hate KDE and that's why I want to avoid things like kaffeine
and look DVB TV with xine-ui instead without losing functionalities.

Above from that a command line switch for producing mpeg PES files (i.
e. recording function) would also be a very good idea for xine-ui.
At the current state xine can record unusable mpeg TS files which no
cutting software can make use of.
So there should be mpeg PS streams as output instead of that, shouldn't
there?

Can someone help and offer patches please?

Regards

Uwe



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