[mythtv] Any way to force DVB Audio PIDS in 0.17 ??

[Jesper Sörensen]

John wrote:

> I have a problem with the Auto-pid functionality. Although it is great 
> leap forward for most channels, there are some channels where audio 
> pids are present, but either unassigned a language or not flagged at 
> all. An example are the Taquilla PPV channels on D+.
>
> Taqulilla 3-5 are properly signed with Spanish as the first language, 
> and the original language on the next PID (and flagged as english). 
> The addition of PrefferedLanguage 'eng' to settings table works, and 
> the original language is recorded.
>
> Taquilla 1,2,6,7 also transmit the original language as the spanish 
> audio PID+1, but dont flag the existence of this PID.


You mean it's not in the PMT? Maybe there is some kind of descriptor 
magic going on that gives a pointer to the PID? Try some dvbsnooping of 
the various DVB tables and see if you can find it somewhere? Otherwise 
I'd say the data stream is pretty broken... :(

> Setting the Audio PIDs by hand in mythtv 0.16 or progdvb under windows 
> allows the "hidden" audio track to be recorded.
>
> Is there a way to manually set PIDS for certain channels, or a patch 
> to force ?


Nope.

> An approach would be to check the dvb_pids table, and use anything set 
> there, or default to the current auto-pids code (which works well for 
> all other channels.)


It probably would be possible to make some kind of override via the 
privatetypes table but that would be pretty ugly and I really hope it 
won't be needed.