[dvblast-devel] D-Book LCN descriptors

Jeremy Poulter jeremy.poulter at oregan.net
Thu Oct 18 12:25:09 CEST 2012



On 18 October 2012 11:15:24, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote:
> Around 10/18/2012 12:56 PM, Jeremy Poulter scribbled:
>> I have been looking at implementing support for parsing the LCN
>> descriptor for UK DVB-T and to my supprise most of it was already there
>> but for a different standard. In the D-Book LCN is tag 0x83 with private
>> data specifier of 0x233a where as what is currently implented is the
>> IEC/CENELEC 62 216 standard where the only difference (in the actual
>> data) is the latter has 1 bit that specifies if the channel is vissible
>> or not and the private data specifier is 0x0028.
>>
>> So my question is what would be the correct way of implementing support
>> for this? I currently have a hack in descl_print that also checks for
>> the private data specifier being 0x233a but I suspect a prefered way
>> would be to duplicate desc_83p28.h as desc_83p233a.h, update the API
>> names and remove the visible bit parsing.
>
> Your patch looks clean and if it is doing the job I think we'd better
> apply it.
>

If you are happy then I am ;-) Note: I have not done any research as to 
if the other tag (0x88) is also the same between the two standards.

Cheers,

Jeremy




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