notes to self, notice how everything leads to a collect everything and serve DVB/ATSC formats solution:

experimental:

8 LOC streamripper using liveMedia library, fetches mp3 via http and writes TS to disk

collected reference material:

update (rewrite) tuxbox (dbox2/dreambox) recorder along the lines of other DVB recorders (doh #6576)
create a mpeg radio via http recorder (wrap mp3/aac elementary stream into valid SPTS with EIT and a nice Shout-/Ice-/Whatevercast channel scanner)
provide User:Dekarl/How to remux elementary streams to look like a Freebox

research started:

wanted / looking for:

software DVB-IPTV client
native frontend on STBs (I want a fanless HD frontend like the popcornhour, needs hints from vendors, see mvpmcx2)
FreeBSD port with working DVB recorder (DVB drivers are in the works, virtual dev machine unstable due to unrelated bugs...)
compress recorded MPEG2 SPTS by converting MPEG2 video to H.264/VC-1 and MPEG audio Layer II to AAC
collect and make use of AR, AFD, ATSC bardata (crop on export/reencode, zoom on playback)
simple tool to mux valid ES in foreign containers into SPTS / MPEG4 files
display aspect a) 16:10 b) any aspect for windowed frontends on a desktop

after world domination:

Bug Notes

it's not that hard to package up a patched MythTV on Ubuntu
- see User:Dekarl/Testing patches on Mythbuntu for the required steps (give yourself ~2 hours for the first try)

0.21 is unable to scan for DVB-C channels without first importing a channel.conf
- tuned scan didn't work (ended up here: 0.21 trunk)
- manually populating one transponder did'nt work
- there's no frequency table for DVB-C (fixed in trunk, see [19945], [19948])

german broadcasters are not signaling teletext subtitle pages in PMT
- try some PMT fixup as the pages are fixed each network, needs to scan the private data for existance of that page
- contacted ZDF on 2011-11-22, lets see if they can add the information themselves, would be preferred.

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