Re: Format of /dev/video or where to get MPEG TS stream?

[Terry Hardie <terryh@orcas.net>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Ralph Metzler wrote:

> Terry Hardie writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I've got the Hauppage card working and locking signals. I'd like to know
>  > if I can get the Transport stream (TS) from somewhere of the locked
>  > signal, and/or what is the format of /dev/video?
>  > 
>  > I've look at the data I get from /dev/video, and it doesn't appear to be
>  > an MPEG2 TS (The 0x47 sync words don't match. The spec says there should
>  > eb 0x47 every 188 bytes)
> 
> Sorry, but you cannot get the raw transport stream from the card. 
> You can only define up to 32 section filters which get you the DVB
> section as defined in the various ETSI documents.

Which ETSI Docs exactly?

Do you know what format the data on /dev/video is then?

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