Re: Kaffeine with VLC backend.

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>]

Em Sat, 8 Jul 2017 21:30:32 +0100
Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com> escreveu:

> On 08/07/17 20:09, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Sat, 8 Jul 2017 18:13:14 +0100
> > Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com> escreveu:
> >   
> >> On 08/07/17 08:17, Malcolm Priestley wrote:  
> >>> Hi Mauro
> >>>
> >>> Have you encountered a strange bug with Kaffeine with VLC backend.
> >>>
> >>> Certain channels will not play correctly, the recordings will also not
> >>> play in VLC.
> >>>
> >>> However, they will play fine with xine player. Only some channels are
> >>> affected of those provided by SKY such as 12207 V on Astra 28.2.
> >>>
> >>> These channels will play fine with Kaffeine with xine backend they also
> >>> play with VLC's dvb-s interface.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas what could be wrong with the TS format?
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if SKY are inserting something into the format.  
> >>
> >> Just a follow up it appears that the PCR is missing from the stream
> >> which is transmitted on a different PID.
> >>
> >> In the case of the above channel manually adding PID 8190 the backend
> >> plays normally.  
> > 
> > You're likely using an old version of Kaffeine. See this BZ:  
> I was already using the latest git tree.

Ah, ok.

> 
> > 	
> > 	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376805
> > No it hasn't fixed it the PCR is still missing from the stream.  
> 
> Somehow, PCR PID needs to be added to the PID filter.
> 
> Unless there is a way VLC can ignore it like xine does?

I suspect that it is probably easier to patch Kaffeine for it to filter
the PCR PIDs and send to libVLC.

Part of the filtering logic is at:
	src/dvb/dvbsi.cpp

Please notice, however, that part of the contents of this file is
auto-generated via tools/updatedvbsi.cpp from tools/dvbsi.xml.

Thanks,
Mauro