[mythtv] Problems with DVB CRCs

[Allan Stirling]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:31 +0000, Allan Stirling wrote:
> 
>>I'm looking at why I am seeing consistent problems with CRC errors reported in 
>>Myth, where other tools appear to be happy with the data stream.
>>
>>According to:
>>http://happy.emu.id.au/lab/tut/dttb/dtbtut4b.htm
>>CRC (PES_CRC_flag)
>>crc is optional in a PES packet. Looking in mpeg/pespacket.cpp,h this doesn't 
>>appear to be implemented.
> 
> Oops. In my defense this wasn't written to be a general PES packet
> parser, it was written to handle just ATSC PSIP tables which have
> additional constraints on the PES packet, and then got extended to 
> handle DVB tables without the aid of the relevant standards documents.
> 
> 
>>The reason I'm thinking this is a Myth issue, rather than a card issue is it 
>>happens on:
> 
> ... This is really easy to fix, so I'll do it today or tomorrow and
> we'll see if it fixes your problem ...
> 

This fixes the issue with CRCs on Astra-28.2 for me. I think it should be 
possible to rip out the "CRC faulty" card stuff now :)

Cheers,

Allan.