[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2706: Unable to 'watch' Digital Music channels with HDHomeRun

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 23:59 -0500, Andrew Kimpton wrote:
> MythTV wrote:
> > #2706: Unable to 'watch' Digital Music channels with HDHomeRun
> > Comment:
> >  Feature request without patch.
> >
> >  Music channels are not supported for anything other than Standards
> >  compliant DVB streams in MythTV.
> >   
> I believe these are standards compliant DVB streams - The PAT seems 
> valid and the PID filtering seems to be working - from the backend log :
>
> 2006-11-20 22:24:59.207 Program Map Table ver(24) pid(0x49) pnum(423) 
> len(78)
>     Smoothing Buffer Descriptor (0x10) length(6)
>     System Clock Descriptor (0xb) length(2)
> 
>  Stream #0 pid(0xe40) type(video-mpeg2  0x2)
>     Stream Identifier Descriptor (0x52) length(1)
>     Video Descriptor (0x2) length(3)
>  Stream #1 pid(0xe41) type(unknown  0xc0)
>     Stream Identifier Descriptor (0x52) length(1)
>     ISO-639 Language: code(eng) canonical(eng) eng(English)
>     Private Data Indicator Descriptor (0xf) length(4)
>  Stream #2 pid(0xe42) type(audio-ac3  0x81)
>     Registration Descriptor: 'AC-3' ATSC audio stream A/52
>     Stream Identifier Descriptor (0x52) length(1)
>     ISO-639 Language: code(eng) canonical(eng) eng(English)

Where is the DVB Radio descriptor? What does the SDT table look like?

DVB != MPEG

Anyway, if you want to implement this correctly, change the NVP so it
can handle there being no video, or in this case very little video, in
the the stream. You will find the NVP in libs/libmythtv/NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp

-- Daniel