Re: [xine-devel] Demux of Transport streams problem. PES Packet length of zero.

[Michel L. <wa...@zo...>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:59:00PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >PES_packet_length ? A 16-bit field specifying the number of bytes in the
> PES packet following the last byte of the
> >field. A value of 0 indicates that the PES packet length is neither
> specified nor bounded and is allowed only in
> >PES packets whose payload consists of bytes from a video elementary stream
> contained in Transport Stream packets.
> 
> So my question is this.
> How the smeg do we handle this in xine ?
> There is no advice on what to do in any documents I have.

I dont know about the xine code here, but the correct thing to do is
that you know the PES is over when you see a TS packet for that PID
with the bit that indicates the start of the next PES packet.

-- 
Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE
Of course I think I'm right. If I thought I was wrong, I'd change my mind.