[linux-dvb] Re: Any need for gszap?

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Niklas Peinecke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen the EOF problem also. I got the impression that it is speed 
> related, i.e. if there is heavy load on the machine EOF occurs more 
> frequently. Nevertheless if you pipe the stream to a file and then 
> replay, there are no problems. Maybe the driver replays values <0 
> through /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 (don't know if this is possible)?
no, it's not. You get the raw unmodified data from air through the dvr 
device. Data is only lost in case of buffer overflows, but the MPEG 
decoder should be able to tolerate corrupted MPEG packets silently.

Holger



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