[libdvbpsi-devel] Bug in EIT PSI section gathering

[Christophe Massiot]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Sas(o Kiselkov wrote:
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> I've found a design bug in eit.c: when gathering PSI sections for EIT
> decoding, the code assumes that the section numbers must be contiguous
> from 0x00 up to i_last_section_number, which isn't the case: ETSI EN 300
> 468 V1.5.1, p.23, "section_number":
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> "Within each segment the section_number shall increment by 1 with each
> additional section, but a gap in numbering is permitted between the last
> section of a segment and the first section of the adjacent segment."
> 
> I found that when trying to program an EPG application, the ARTE channel
> multiplex on Astra 19.2E would only show me the current and following
> events (in table_id 0x4e with just two sections), but none of the
> scheduled events (table_id 0x50 - 0x5f, with lots more sections with
> gaps between them). I reworked the code in eit.c to call
> dvbpsi_DecodeEITSections for each new section received, which made
> decode each section one by one, but my solution is a hack and clearly
> suboptimal.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to patch this behavior?

Which libdvbpsi version are you using ?

-- 
Christophe Massiot.