SCTE 35 message identification

[nvilochan]

Hi,
I have some queries regarding VLC player :

Is there any way to know if a stream has SCTE 35 message embedded into it or not ?

If i am streaming MPEG2 embedded with SCTE 35 message, will VLC strip off the SCTE 35 message before streaming ?

THx
Nalin

[The DJ]

It depends on what kind of streaming you do. Also, by default, VLC will likely not stream stuff it does not recognize, but i'm quite sure there is a flag for something like that.

If you fully want to support it, you would have to implement:
http://www.scte.org/documents/pdf/ANSISCTE352004.pdf

This first should be implemented in libdvbpsi (might even already be there, but I did not check). Secondly, said information should then be handled in VLC's modules/demux/ts.c sourcecodefile. It should be easy enough to do this, and VLC would then be able to RECOGNIZE the events (but doing something with it is a whole other cup of tea of course.) We (both libdvbpsi and VLC) would more than welcome any patches in that area.

[nvilochan]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I need do learn about the vlc software architecture and the changes that i need to do. Could you pls point me to the documentation specific to the changed need to be done for supporting SCTE35 streaming.


THx
Nalin

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Unfortunately, there is no truly uptodate comprehensive developper documentation.