I am grateful the code does not store the extra subchannels. My previous hidef solution stored everything and was an incredible disk hog.
I love this implementation. Thanks Brandon. Donn On 5/11/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:53:52PM -0500, Jonathan Watmough wrote: > > Does that mean it includes both 'channels' for HD channels that have > 1 > > subchannels ? > > When I originally wrote the HDTV code it did, but that has since > changed. The reason is rarely do you want to record more than 1 > subchannel. So, when you record a channel it takes the incoming data > and strips all the other subchannels off, except for the one you had set > to record. You also would then have to have 2 HDTV tuners to record 2 > subchannels on one channel right now, but this will change in the future > (We just need a smarter packet processor that knows it should save N > number of streams to different files if you want more than 1 stream on > the same channel, and DVB will better support this feature also.) > > There is also some additional processing done on the packets to get rid > of redundant data, so we're not storing pure MPEG-TS streams... They're > closer to/if not mpeg-ps streams when saved to disk. > > --Brandon > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
