[vls-devel] Patch for disabling unknown PIDs

[Marian Durkovic]

> Actually, the ZDF transpoder is one of the bundles where I run into problems 
> with this. The vls includes PIDs 910, 955, 956, 960, 961, 962, 963 into all 
> multicasted channels, which eats a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. 
> Broadcasting all channels from this transpoder creates a network stream of 
> 80 Mbps. I think it would be very useful to have some way to either specify 
> PIDs by hand or automatically discard PIDs unknown to vlc.

It's enough not to transmit PIDs with TS_TYPE_MPEG2_PRIVATE or higher.
Now the ZDF transpoder gives only 35 Mbps a east only half of the CPU time.

So the patch looks like this:


--- dvbinput.cpp        Mon Oct  7 09:44:41 2002
+++ dvbinput.cpp.my     Mon Oct  7 09:49:19 2002
@@ -271,6 +271,8 @@

   if(i < 64)
   {
+  if(iType < TS_TYPE_MPEG2_PRIVATE)
+   {
     int iFd = open(m_strDemux.GetString(), O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK);
     if(iFd < 0)
       Log(m_hLog, LOG_ERROR, "Unable to open demux");
@@ -323,6 +325,11 @@
         m_iDemuxes[2 * i + 1] = iFd;
       }
     }
+   }
+   else
+   {
+     LogDbg(m_hLog, C_String("Demux filter not started for PID ")
+                        + iPid + C_String(" ES type: ") + iType);
    }
   }
   else  





	With kind regards,


		M.


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