[vlc-devel] Re: Packetizer use within demux module

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

I truly applaud this. The more ppl working to get formats supported in 
VLC the better.

> The TiVo format is what I call a proprietary transport stream, with 
> some
> minor modifications to the embedded MPEG program stream.  The 
> elemental data
> is MPEG2 video with either AC3 or MPEG audio.  The transport stream 
> data is
> in 128K chunks, with a header describing the audio / video / 
> closed-caption
> / extended-data records in this chunk.

OMG. i can only say one thing  :) WHY!!!!????
stupid companies, always creating proprietary formats :)
>
> I currently discard the closed-caption information because I don't 
> think VLC
> can yet handle streaming subtitle data.

What kind of CC info is this? Do you have any idea? is it DVB text 
subs, DVB picture subs, DVD vobsubs, Teletext subs?

DJ

> Also, in the past couple of months, TiVo has come out with a new 
> ".tivo"
> format for extracted files which has encrypted video & audio.  They 
> call it
> "TiVo to go".  I suppose a demux for that is my next project. :)

Don't spent too much time on it :) considering the financial state of 
the tivo company :)

DJ
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Derk-Jan Hartman (d.hartman at student.utwente dot nl)
http://home.student.utwente.nl/d.hartman

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