From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DVB TS/PES filters
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:35:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328222117.3572.27.camel@tvbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120202190420.45629a9b@tiber>
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 19:04 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:40:44 +0100
> Lars Hanisch <dvb@flensrocker.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 01.02.2012 14:32, schrieb Tony Houghton:
> > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:40:15 +0000 Tony Houghton<h@realh.co.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I could do with a little more information about DMX_SET_PES_FILTER.
> > >> Specifically I want to use an output type of DMX_OUT_TS_TAP. I
> > >> believe there's a limit on how many filters can be set, but I don't
> > >> know whether the kernel imposes such a limit or whether it depends
> > >> on the hardware, If the latter, how can I read the limit?
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me get more information about this (and the "magic
> > > number" pid of 8192 for the whole stream)?
> >
> > In the TS-header there are 13 bits for the PID, so it can be from 0
> > to 8191. Therefore dvb-core interprets 8192 (and greater values I
> > think) as "all PIDs".
>
> Thanks for that. But it would be really helpful if I could find out
> whether there really is a limit to the number of filters and whether
> it's hardware dependent or the kernel.
The hardware usually only filters the TS packets unprocessed.
Hardware TS filtering is typically 16, 32 or 64. Nearly all can be
turned off(unfiltered).
dvb-usb devices the unfiltered limit is 255.
The most TS streams usually contain 20 to 40 or so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 15:40 DVB TS/PES filters Tony Houghton
2012-02-01 13:32 ` Tony Houghton
2012-02-01 17:40 ` Lars Hanisch
2012-02-02 19:04 ` Tony Houghton
2012-02-02 22:35 ` Malcolm Priestley [this message]
2012-02-03 10:20 ` Roberto Ragusa
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