[dvblast-devel] Passthrough has no effect

[Christophe Massiot]

Hi Stefan,

Sorry for the delay. I have pushed the implementation and your patch, can you check? If everything is OK I would like to make a release.

Best regards,

> On 13 May 2018, at 17:33, Stefan Pöschel <basic.master at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> as the implementation already exists, I would really appreciate that it
> is pushed. The reason is that I actually sometimes use dvblast to do a
> mux dump and to see at the same time whether e.g. any discontinuities occur.
> 
> Currently I use the "-d" option to output the mux to a localhost port
> and save it with nc, but I would really prefer to have to use only a
> single command for a dump, and to have a more direct way without
> involving loopback. So this would be really useful for me.
> 
> Or is there any other tool for Linux that provides a similar extent of
> options to configure the reception parameters and the ability to dump a
> complete mux?
> 
> Regards,
> 	Stefan
> 
> Am 13.05.2018 um 17:17 schrieb Christophe Massiot:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Indeed I apparently never pushed the implementation. Is this of any use to someone, or should we remove the option?
>> 
>> An alternative would be indeed to output the transponder to a multicast address (using SID *), and record it with multicat.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>>> On 13 May 2018, at 09:24, Stefan Pöschel <basic.master at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> the -3/--passthrough parameter currently has no effect. The reason is
>>> that the variable b_passthrough is set during cmdline parsing, but never
>>> used (the output_config_t struct has a similar variable by the way).
>>> My understanding was that I can use this parameter - without any other
>>> output method - in order to e.g. easily do a transponder dump. Is this
>>> correct?
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 	Stefan
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