Possible to flag primarily audio channels in the EPG?

[djp952]

Hi! I was wondering if it would be possible to (at some point) provide a flag of some kind in the EPG data that indicates if a channel is primarily an audio channel as opposed to a video channel? I realize that having this available from the tuner lineups is probably impossible since these channels do typically provide a video stream and there would be no good way to know from a channel scan or inspection of the MPEG-TS data. Having the EPG data indicate the type of channel seems like a reasonable way to accomplish it.

My inquiry is mainly for applications such as Kodi that provide both "TV" and "Radio" categories in their interface. If there was a way to discern audio channels from "regular" ones, those specific channels could be separated out, and perhaps even demuxed to exclude the video stream(s), for the end user.

Such a feature may be beneficial to the HDHomeRun App as well, I think it would be pretty nice to be able to know that the FiOS channels that start with "MC" (Music Choice?) are basically radio stations, and instead of showing a static image of Jay-Z go to a screensaver or cool visualization instead

[nickk]

I think we have that information - I will check...

Nick

[tmm1]

FYI, there is a bit in the MPEGTS PMT for music channels which signals that the video stream consists of still images.

See still_picture_flag in the video_stream_descriptor (H.222 2.6.2)

[djp952]

FYI, there is a bit in the MPEGTS PMT for music channels which signals that the video stream consists of still images.

See still_picture_flag in the video_stream_descriptor (H.222 2.6.2)

How cool - thank you!!