[mythtv] DVB: Anybody using software filtering?

Jesper Sörensen jesper at datapartner.se
Fri Mar 25 18:44:37 UTC 2005


Taylor Jacob skrev:

>Quoting Jesper Sörensen <jesper at datapartner.se>:
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>>I don't know what the "filtering limitations" are and I don't see how
>>this option could "fix" it so unless someone is actually using this and
>>can tell me more about it I'm planning to rip it out to simplify some
>>things... Anyone?
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>I think this is intended to open the raw transport stream and handle all the pid
>filtering in software.. I really don't see this being useful at all, and is just
>more cruft that out to be removed from setup as well as the recorder.
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>This of course would only work on hw filtering cards for when the pid limit is
>maxed out.. I will have to pull up the code, but I don't think that its worth
>keeping at all..
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Exactly, that's my take on it too. AFAIK the DVB drivers does the soft 
filtering if needed...

I can't see any sw pid filtering code in Myth so I'm guessing this 
doesn't work anyway (probably why it's described as "broken" too).



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