[mythtv-users] ITV HD trunk

[Andre Newman]

On 8 Oct 2009, at 19:17, Another Sillyname wrote:

> 2009/10/8 Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk>:
>
>> Only issue I'm seeing is that there is still something odd about  
>> the fixed
>> up ITVHD TS file, it probably plays fine in MythFrontend, although  
>> I don't
>> use that so haven't tried but the PS3 denies all knowledge of an  
>> audio
>> track, must have a look at the patch code and see if there's  
>> something I can
>> do to fix it.
>>
>
> It's because ITV often mess around with the stream mappings.

Which makes me think that maybe the ITV HD patch could be extended  
into a framework for fixing up the stupid things that broadcasters and  
sometimes encoder/muxer manufacturers do.

I see now how trivial the patch is but looking through that code I see  
potential for some interesting fixups.
>
> If the PS3 code doesn't think to check audio is lower then the video
> stream it won't get found.

I often wish I could find a way to bang the PS3 media player  
developers heads together, some quite small changes would make a big  
difference to the product! Alternatively a DVB-S2 version of PlayTV  
sold across Europe would cause most irritations to get fixed :-) An  
American friend with MythTV ATSC HD and a PS3 tells me everything he  
records plays fine for him.

Andre