Re: [RFC] dvb-apps ported for ISDB-T

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 25-12-2009 13:33, Akihiro TSUKADA escreveu:
> 
> Hi Mauro,
> 
>>> I wrote several patches those days in order to allow dvb-apps to properly
>>> parse ISDB-T channel.conf.
>  
> I think it would be convenient if channel.conf allows
> the kind of format of PROPNAME=VALUE list, for readability and extensibility
> of the conf file.
> 
> there are already so many parameters in ISDB-T,
> so it is a bit difficult for the users to remember and correctly specify
> all the field in the right order.
> besides they have to be careful in counting the delimiter character
>  when some (most?) parameters can be omitted or be left to the device/region default.
> 
> and when I consider extending this lib to ISDB-S (for example),
> I have to add "TS-id" parameter,
> which leads to the re-definition of the data structure and requires re-building.
> So, it would be convenient if I could write for example like,
> DTV_FREQUENCY=1049480:DTV_ISDBS_TS_ID=1

It shouldn't be hard to add it, by writing a new parser file and a new dump file.
Currently, there are two parser files and two dump files: one for vdr and one for
zap format.

I opted to not do it to avoid breaking compatibility with those two applications.

Cheers,
Mauro.