[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-09 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:52:32PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: ... At that point dvrY is totally useless and it could be theorically removed (but it's better to not break existing apps, of course). We should keep it in v3, in v4 it will vanish anyways.

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Hi all, this posts is about discussions started in a different thread ([linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH?] proposed rewrite of skystar2 filters, Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:24:42 +0100) There are currently two ways to get data from a TS (I'm considering DMX_TYPE_PES only): 1)

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Luca Abeni
Hi all, [...] The TS_TAP method has a big limitation; there is only one /dev/dvb/adapter/dvrY device, so it's not possible to read two sets of pids (as it's necessary when one wants to separately record two television channels with identical frontend settings). Sorry, I am not an expert,

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Hi all, this posts is about discussions started in a different thread ([linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH?] proposed rewrite of skystar2 filters, Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:24:42 +0100) There are currently two ways to get data from a TS (I'm considering DMX_TYPE_PES only): 1) DMX_OUT_TAP 2)

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:27:13 +0100 Ralph Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto Ragusa writes: [...] At that point dvrY is totally useless and it could be theorically removed (but it's better to not break existing apps, of course). I'm open to suggestions on the matter.

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 05 Dec 2003 15:06:58 + Luca Abeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I am not an expert, but I think this kind of demultiplexing shoud be done in user space. In other words: I think that a single dvr device is ok: we can select all the pids that we need and then a user-space program can

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:27:31 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know whether I fully understand what this is about, but I just saw that DMX_OUT_TS_TAP is used in VDR, and VDR is well able to record the same channel into several files (like in case of overlapping timers

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:45:09 +0100 Holger Waechtler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) is very easily solved; I just tried to comment the TS_PAYLOAD_ONLY flag around line 657 of dmxdev.c and the packets are not modified anymore. A new flag will be enough (sadly, the obvious name DMX_OUT_TS_TAP

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: ... At that point dvrY is totally useless and it could be theorically removed (but it's better to not break existing apps, of course). We should keep it in v3, in v4 it will vanish anyways. The DVR device is still required for MultiPID-TS filters when we don't

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: ... At that point dvrY is totally useless and it could be theorically removed (but it's better to not break existing apps, of course). We should keep it in v3, in v4 it will vanish anyways. The DVR device is still required for MultiPID-TS filters