[pvrusb2] xawtv fix

[Barry Jett]

>From: Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>
>Reply-To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <pvrusb2 at isely.net>
>To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <pvrusb2 at isely.net>
>Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] xawtv fix
>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:08:17 -0500 (CDT)
>
>
>On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, xavier.gnata at free.fr wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for this long explanation.
> > I'm not mpeg aware engough to solve this problem :(
> > You should ask guys on mplayer devel list. If you do so, could you post 
>a
> > reference to your question on this list?
> >
> > Xavier
> >
>
>Well it turns out my explanation was wrong....
>
>Short summary: I now have xawtv working regardless of the setting in the
>driver.  This looks like it might be a bug in xawtv, or at least fragile
>behavior when trying to locate packet headers.
>
>Longer story:
>
>I did some reading tonight about the mpeg2 standard and quickly realized
>that it was simply impossible for mplayer to still work with that 0xc0
>packet type missing.  I then looked (closer) at dvbsnoop output of a
>sample stream I had captured Sunday and sure enough the 0xc0 type was

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Mike,

That did it !   Xawtv is working now on my 24xxx hardware !

Thanks for fixing xawtv and thanks for the full explanations - I appreciate
the technical explanations of whats "going on under the hood" !

Barry