[vdr] Re: mpeg1 layer 2 (mp2) -> iec958 ?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:40:07PM +0200, Sven Goethel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 20:55, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> > > On 14 Oct 2003 "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> wrote:
> > > > Does the mp3 really use PlayAudio with mp3 -> PCM?
> > >
> > > Yes, it does. I didn't know that there is an easy way to convert
> > > mp3->mp2 and other sound formats would be a problem too.
> > >
> > > > I guess it does something like mp3 -> mp2 and
> > > > PlayVideo() with audio mp2 only.  In other words it
> > > > uses the hw mp2 decoder of the DVB card to get both
> > > > PCM on the S/P-DIF and analog audio.
> > >
> > > PCM is routed to SPDIF and analog out.
> > >
> >
> > hold a sec .. i saw only a PlayVideo call,
> > so i guessed a PlayAudio call is missing
> > - since PlayVideo does not call PlayAudio ..
> >
> > wrong .. right ?
> 
> ;^)  ... clear defined name spaces
> 
> OK:  PlayVideo() is the function which takes audio, video
> and any audio data within PS1 streams.  Whereas PlayAudio()
> is the interface to any attached receiver plugin or program
> attached as receiver with the option -a of VDR.
> 
> @Klaus: maybe names like PlayAV() and ForwardAudio() would
> be better.

Maybe - but changing these now doesn't make much sense, I guess.
That would just cause an avalanche of patches for all the plugins.

I'll see if I can introduce them in a future version and slowly
fade out the old ones.

Klaus


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