[mythtv] DVB EIT Implementation

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Tue Oct 11 22:52:28 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:26 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 
> Can anybody explain why the EIT processing in siparser
> contains all those section trackers & the rest?

Jacob Taylor

John Pullan and I know a bit about it, but it is Jacob's baby.

> Why don't we just
> 1) Decode event(s) (ParseDVBEIT, ParseATSCEIT etc)
> 2) Queue event(s) directly into eithelper.
You need to assemble the TS packets into PES packets before
you can call the parse functions, which is what the section
trackers do.

> After looking for those memory leaks and analysing that
> code it made me want to get out the hatchet and perform
> some surgery in that area.
> Unless there is a good reason I'll start sharpening
> the hatched :-)
There is one reason, this is scheduled for 0.20...

I for one would like to get 0.19 out before the Linux 
Journal article on MythTV comes out next month...

-- Daniel



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