[mythtv] question about changeset 11403

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sun Feb 3 18:46:13 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:29 -0500, Scott D. Davilla wrote:
> Changeset 11403 (Copies ATSC Caption descriptor from VCT to PMT in 
> DVBRecorder ) reference ticket 1095 (Improve EIA-708 caption decoding)
> 
>  From the description,
> 
> "Terrestrial ATSC is not required to have a caption descriptor in the 
> PMT, this copies it over from the VCT when it isn't in the PMT. Since 
> we don't save the VCT in our DVB recordings we need these descriptors 
> in the PMT so we can inform the user of the language and other 
> properties of their caption streams."
> 
> Since the HDHomeRun can also capture terrestrial ATSC, should it also 
> have a similar patch. I can do a patch but I'm just asking if I'm 
> overlooking something.

That code was moved to mpegstreamdata.cpp so I believe it is now used
for all DTV recorders for ATSC capture.

-- Daniel



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