On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:31 +0200, Michael Riepe wrote: > Hi! > > Chris wrote: > > > The problem is that when tsfile reads in the file it is failing to find > > the any audiostreams and so is not populating the audiolist in the > > popup. > > Yep. There is an AC-3 audio stream, but dvbcut doesn't recognize it > because the AC-3 frames are not aligned to PES packet boundaries. > > Good news: the stream is perfectly valid. > > Bad news: it's dvbcut's fault. > > There are SI tables in the stream, including a PAT (program association > table) and a PMT (program map table). The former points to the latter, > and the latter must contain an AC-3 descriptor for every AC-3 audio > stream (according to the DVB specs). By inspecting these tables, you can > find out which stream contains what (MPEG/AC-3/DTS audio, video, > subtitles, teletext and so on). > What tools do you use to examine the stream? Where is a good place to start to learn to interpret them?
> But: some receivers/recorders don't write the tables to disk, so you > have to guess. This is what dvbcut currently does, but it guesses wrong > if the audio frames aren't aligned. Converting the transport stream to a > program stream may help, but only if the converter re-packages the audio > track (the program I use doesn't, and dvbcut -batch won't work either, > for obvious reasons). > I use WebScheduler to capture. It has an option to capture all PIDs belonging to a program. > I guess it will take a while to fix that. > I am willing to give it a try but first need to learn how to read the stream. Regards, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DVBCUT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvbcut-user
