[Live-devel] trick play indexing on PowerPC

[Daniel Robbins]

I will send these two files - in about 10 minutes - to your direct email 
to reduce list traffic.

Regards,

Daniel

Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> The Intel PC-generated index, when copied over to the PowerPC, allowed
>> testMPEG2TransportStreamTrickPlay to function properly and generate a
>> valid .ts output file containing a "fast forwarded" stream. So it looks
>> like it is indeed some kind of issue with the index file generation.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the update.  The 'index file' format is, indeed, 
> little-endian; however, the code that generates index files is 
> supposed to work correctly regardless of the endian-ness of the 
> computer that it's running on.  But apparently that's not working 
> properly.
>
> Unfortunately I don't currently have a big-endian computer available 
> to test this on - so I'm going to need your help in tracking down 
> this problem.  Could you please do the following:
> 	1/ Generate an index file on an Intel PC
> 	2/ Generate an index file - from the *same* Transport Stream 
> source - on a PowerPC
> 	3/ Run "head -c 10000" on each file, to generate new files 
> (the first 10000 bytes of each index file)
> 	4/ Mail me these two (10000 byte) files, so I can compare 
> them, to (hopefully) figure out why the index file generation is 
> failing when done on a PowerPC.
>