Feature #1280
closed
Pass through container/muxer selection needs better documentation
Added by Eric Valette over 12 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.
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Description
In the digital video recorder configuration page, you have the choice for matroska or pass through. I hardly think its intuitive that pass-through means TS.
Updated by Adam Sutton over 12 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Assignee changed from Hein Rigolo to John Törnblom
- Target version deleted (
3.3)
This hardly constitutes a bug. The use of passthru is apt for its usage, to pass the original source through unmodified, as opposed to ts (not yet included) which will (re)mux to ts.
But I accept the point this needs better documentation.
Adam
Updated by Eric Valette over 12 years ago
Adam Sutton wrote:
This hardly constitutes a bug. The use of passthru is apt for its usage, to pass the original source through unmodified, as opposed to ts (not yet included) which will (re)mux to ts.
But I accept the point this needs better documentation.
Adam
Does this means it records the full multiplex? No palyer can cope with that?
Updated by Adam Sutton over 12 years ago
I was replying on my phone, the word "mostly" appears to have gone missing. No it doesn't send the entire multiplex, only those streams associated with the requested program. But the libav based TS muxer (which isn't yet included) does additional manipulation including a full remux rather than just passing through the relevant streams.
Adam
Updated by Eric Valette over 12 years ago
Adam Sutton wrote:
I was replying on my phone, the word "mostly" appears to have gone missing. No it doesn't send the entire multiplex, only those streams associated with the requested program. But the libav based TS muxer (which isn't yet included) does additional manipulation including a full remux rather than just passing through the relevant streams.
Adam
What will be the benefit of TS remuxing? You just need to recreate PAT/PMT and insert it in the stream periodically?
Updated by Adam Sutton over 12 years ago
- Subject changed from Pass through is hardly a name for a media container to Pass through container/muxer selection needs better documentation
- Status changed from New to Accepted
I agree that this could be made clearer in the UI, and certainly the documentation needs updating.
Adam
Updated by Dave Chapman over 12 years ago
Eric Valette - wrote:
What will be the benefit of TS remuxing? You just need to recreate PAT/PMT and insert it in the stream periodically?
Yes, there's no point currently, but it will be used when transcoding.
Updated by Eric Valette over 12 years ago
Dave Chapman wrote:
Eric Valette - wrote:
What will be the benefit of TS remuxing? You just need to recreate PAT/PMT and insert it in the stream periodically?
Yes, there's no point currently, but it will be used when transcoding.
As stated elsewhere, transcoding in sofware is for me a deadend. Recent NAS and STB are already doing it in hardware and most new STB IP chipset integrates this feature. What you really know it a convenient UI to configure the transcoding output which is typically the contrary to what has been done for TS integration.
@Adam Bark : I created o entry in forum to discuss TS vs MKV, HTTP vs HTSP, ...
Updated by Adam Sutton over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Accepted to Fixed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset commit:2df9dbe3e1ce0b019b294aec209805e84622675f.