On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Markus Rechberger <mrechber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Michael Krufky <mkru...@kernellabs.com> > wrote: >> Mauro, >> >> This adds the ability for drivers to send the received raw payload to >> the dvr device, in cases of newer delivery systems that do not deliver >> transport stream and do not require usage of the kernel demux. In >> these cases, the data can be fully decoded by a userspace application >> / library. >> >> For a driver to deliver the raw payload, simply use the function >> "dvb_dmx_swfilter_raw" instead of "dvb_dmx_swfilter" or > > RAW without an additional identifier doesn't make much sense, > how should an application figure out what a RAW stream is? > Is it network data? is /dev/urandom data? how should that be handle by > an application. > There should be another 'hint' somewhere about the fileformat. > This somewhat influences the internal/external DVB API, without proper > identification it shouldn't be added as it is.
Markus, "raw" as in, untouched, directly received from the device. Another word can be used to describe it- "pass-thru" ... I think "raw" suffices, however. It's not specific to any format. -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
