On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 12:49 +0200, Stephan Krings wrote: > Hi, > > >>I using DVB-S in Germany with Astra. But I still have to comment out the > >>code in siparser.cpp which is marked with my name. > >> > > > > <snip> > > > > Did anyone work out why this wasn't working ? i.e I know what/where > > the fix is, but do we know why we need to do this ? > > It was/is working, it was just missing some of the event information. > The DVB SI spec (EN 300468) states: > > "The extended event descriptor provides a detailed text description of > an event, which may be used in addition to the > short event descriptor. More than one extended event descriptor can be > associated to allow information about one event > greater in length than 256 bytes to be conveyed." > > The present code only extracts the text from the first descriptor. I > wondered why the program descriptions were all truncated and used the > dvbsnoop tool to look at the stream. I realized that there are often > more extended event descriptors present, which carry additional text for > a program. > > My patch just makes sure that _all_ the extended event descriptors for > the prefered language are taken into account, when building the program > description, and not just the first blob of text. > sorry didn't make myself clear, (I'm sure your patch is fine :) )
Do we know why on DVB-S Astra, Kristian needs to alter the code ? -- John
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