[Ffmpeg-devel] mpeg transport streams

[Måns Rullgård]

Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:04 +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>> >> There are two things I keep wondering: 1) why did they make the
>> >> standard so difficult to follow, and 2) why are some products so picky
>> >> with what they tolerate?
>> > Money? ;-)
>> Well, money is almost always part of the explanation.
>
> What I meant is that manufacturers tend to make incomplete
> implementations in hardware (money, incompetence, ..., ?), so they make
> a binary-only "driver" (windows of course) that masks the omissions, and

That doesn't explain why some software bails out totally if the PCR is
a little out of spec.  The worst thing is when it does so with the
message "bitrate is less than 64kbps".

> make the documentation NDA, so you cannot find out (easily) that you've
> been fooled. See promise raid controllers and e.g. the Philips saa7134
> video grabber (end rant ;-))

Which part of the saa7134 isn't?  In my experience, it works quite
well with Linux and open drivers.

>> > IIRC you have "proper" ts muxer, can't you port that to ffmpeg?
>
>> I'm just lacking the incentive.  If someone would like to have a go at
>> it, the code is available for download with TCVP.  I'm giving no
>> guarantee that it's correct, but it works better than the others I've
>> tried.
>
> Volunteers? ;-) I am not using TS much, only for reading from the STB,
> so I don't have much motivation as well ;-)

Well, then perhaps you're motivated to improve the demuxer.  For
starters, I think we should drop that useless SDT parsing to speed
things up a little.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mru at inprovide.com