[vdr] Re: what does autoPID exactly do?

[Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 21:21 schrieb David:
> Hi,
>
> I asked google but i don't get to know what the autopid patch does....
>
> only:
> Dieser Patch bringt vdr dazu, selbeständig neue Sender zu suchen. Das
> regelmäßige Editieren der channel.conf entfällt somit.
>
> This patch gives vdr the possibility to scan for new channels on its won.
> The manually scan for new channels and editing of your channel.conf will be
> a task of the past.

Shortly:

The MPEG Transport Stream is self-descriptive.
It contains in itself all information about what it is transporting.
So in a perfect implementation it is superfluous to provide a channels.conf.
The autopid patch works towards that situation.



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