Hi all,
A few things... I do appreciate the work that has gone in to myth tv. I understand that people did it in their spare time, and I thank them for that. It is a great piece of work. My email was sent in frustration, which is usually not a good time to hit send. I'm not entirely repentant about having sent that email though - it got more informative responses than my previous, less provocative, posts.
Taylor: That's great that those other TS issues are fixed. I understand that you don't get paid. No apology is asked for or needed for being busy. I also thank you for working on an issue that you don't personally see. (It is a pity there is no "international open source Beer-o-gram" service.)
Thanks for the information that you are using the standard itself. That is a useful piece of information, as is the fact that you are using the MPEG standard rather than the DVB standard. That is exactly the sort of information I was after.
Nathan: I understand lack of time includes email checking. I only skim -users. I also only get digests. The previous emails I referred to, where I posted what I thought was useful information and got no response, were to the -dev list.
Jesper: I was asking what sort of docs you are using. I had found links to a large number of standards, but often they are not the best place to start, nor did I know which were the best ones to start with (H222 rather than the DVB ones). If someone posted asking me about learning to use some of the robots I program then I'd certainly point them to the specs, but I'd also point them to some very relevant sample code and a few other resources that are useful. Just the one sentence, "The spec is the best place, and there isn't much else", is a very helpful response. I would have loved that response (and if it had pointed me to the linuxtv web site before I found it myself that would have been even better).
Also, there have been a few emails about those TS issues recently. I understand that people are busy and responding to email takes time, which is why I was somewhat frustrated that the response I saw
i) asked for information that had already been posted,
ii) responded to a "me too" post, and
iii) responded to the post that asked for a solution rather than the post that indicated effort working towards a solution and asked for a few pointers.
The point about the subjects of my email is somewhat valid. The "Four issues" post did refer to four separate issues, and maybe that in itself is a problem. My more specific followup, "Incorrect frame counts" http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/117680 , has a fairly specific title, perhaps too specific, but I know that it was seen by some people following this problem.
Anyway, I'll look at that patch when I get the time - as I said before, I'm also pretty busy. I have the DVB specs. For various reasons I'm having trouble getting the mpeg specs online. I've found some relevant stuff in the university library, but it is out on loan - I'll have a look at the dead trees when they get returned.
Be well,
Will :-}
-- Dr William Uther National ICT Australia Phone: +61 2 9385 6357 Computer Science and Engineering Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of New South Wales Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ Sydney, Australia
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