[Redbutton-devel] SF.net SVN: redbutton: [49] redbutton-download/trunk/stream.c

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Revision: 49
Author:   skilvington
Date:     2006-05-11 01:27:18 -0700 (Thu, 11 May 2006)
ViewCVS:  http://svn.sourceforge.net/redbutton/?rev=49&view=rev

Log Message:
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always set PES filter type to DMX_PES_OTHER

Modified Paths:
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    redbutton-download/trunk/stream.c
Modified: redbutton-download/trunk/stream.c
===================================================================
--- redbutton-download/trunk/stream.c	2006-05-10 13:36:14 UTC (rev 48)
+++ redbutton-download/trunk/stream.c	2006-05-11 08:27:18 UTC (rev 49)
@@ -28,11 +28,22 @@
 	pes_filter.output = DMX_OUT_TS_TAP;
 	pes_filter.flags = DMX_IMMEDIATE_START;
 	pes_filter.pid = pid;
+	/*
+	 * I think the way pes_type works is like this:
+	 * if you set it to DMX_PES_VIDEO then the output goes to the dvr0 device (as a TS)
+	 * but it also ends up on the video0 device (presumably as decoded video frames)
+	 * similarly for DMX_PES_AUDIO
+	 * if we set the pes_type to DMX_PES_OTHER then the output only goes to the dvr0 device
+	 * on my Nova-T card, there is no hardware MPEG decoder so setting the pes_type to DMX_PES_VIDEO returns an error (sometimes!)
+	 * anyway, always setting it to DMX_PES_OTHER works for me
+	 */
+	pes_type=DMX_PES_OTHER;
 	pes_filter.pes_type = pes_type;
 
 	if(ioctl(fd, DMX_SET_PES_FILTER, &pes_filter) < 0)
 	{
 		error("ioctl DMX_SET_PES_FILTER: %s", strerror(errno));
+error("pid=%d type=%d", pid, pes_type);
 		close(fd);
 		return -1;
 	}


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