Hein Rigolo wrote:
> Eric you know as well as me that currently we need to find more maintainers that work the code.
Sure. But a patch to add ts recording is work that has been done by someone else.
> And the decision to only support mkv as the storage container format has been discussed before and it was decided to stick to that. So any patch that could improve the mkv muxes is always welcome.
Well I did not write myself the patch that fixed H264 stream in mkv because I know about nothing about H264 internals but I asked a friend of mine that did H264 encoder in the past to fix it. It did cost me a bottle of wine and a HTPC for test (that still did not came back). So I contributed to fix mkv recording yes. If people want ts recording because they wants to read their recording on a low cost TNT adapters that is able only to read TS from a USB disk, that's fine with me.
The pull request is still open. Its better open than close as people can see it but a comment saying why it will not be applied is also fine. It may help you to discover usage for the recordings that you missed. My HTPC use e-sata disk and I can move the esata disks and read them with non PC software.
> > And why is mkv better for streaming BTW? if I test ts streaming with vlc2 mpalyer, mplayer2 it simply works. With MKV that has been applied only mplayer works and that only if I increase the buffer size. Mplayer2 and VLC 2 just fails. Again do you consider your user base?
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> I never said that mkv is better for streaming ... it is a better format for recording tv shows because it can also contain the meta data about the tv show in the same file. That is something that is not possible with a raw transport stream recording.
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> But ... Google and others are heavily pushing WebM as a format to stream video content, and that format is based on mkv. So I would guess that mkv streaming could be just as good as .ts streaming.
> But .. the main task of tvheadend is creating recordings, and streaming real time live tv ... not streaming completed recordings .. those can be watched with "normal" media players.
You miss a point. What you record may be played by other devices that may not know how to correctly play MKV. This is the case for most tv sets and low cost TNT adapters with USB storage that just dump the TS and read it back.
I do not use TS myself but if people want it enough to supply patches, I would accept them.