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<blockquote data-quote="Contours" data-source="post: 1148769" data-attributes="member: 154230">&quot;Stands for Program Map Table. This table contains detailed information about programs (channels). There is a single program map with its own unique PID for each program in the PAT. Program maps describe the PIDs that contain the relevant elementary streams for a program. For example, if a program contains an MPEG-2 video stream, the program map table will list its PID, describe it as a video stream, and specify the type of video that it contains (in this case, MPEG-2). The PMT may also contain additional descriptors that provide metadata for its constituent streams.&quot;@mm: Tomorrow, I'll try the couple of things you've mention ... like deleting all channels and rescanning.&nbsp; But realize that nothing in the above PMT definition makes sense to me.&nbsp; &quot;Elementary streams&quot; ... &quot;video streams&quot; ... &quot;constituent streams&quot; ... they are all the jargon of a realm that neither I, nor 99.9% of the PC user population are acquainted with.You work in the realm and these things become second nature.&nbsp; Just realize that there are large conceptual gaps that aren't bridgeable by &quot;reading the Wiki&quot;, so long as the Wiki is written in the jargon.&nbsp; And only someone versed in the jargon can translate downward.&nbsp; That's the challenge that needs to be met.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Contours, post: 1148769, member: 154230"] [COLOR=#a64dff][I]"Stands for Program Map Table. This table contains detailed information about programs (channels). There is a single program map with its own unique PID for each program in the PAT. Program maps describe the PIDs that contain the relevant elementary streams for a program. For example, if a program contains an MPEG-2 video stream, the program map table will list its PID, describe it as a video stream, and specify the type of video that it contains (in this case, MPEG-2). The PMT may also contain additional descriptors that provide metadata for its constituent streams."[/I][/COLOR] @mm: Tomorrow, I'll try the couple of things you've mention ... like deleting all channels and rescanning. But realize that [B]nothing[/B] in the above PMT definition makes sense to me. "Elementary streams" ... "video streams" ... "constituent streams" ... they are all the jargon of a realm that neither I, nor 99.9% of the PC user population are acquainted with. You work in the realm and these things become second nature. Just realize that there are large conceptual gaps that aren't bridgeable by "reading the Wiki", so long as the Wiki is written in the jargon. And only someone versed in the jargon can translate downward. That's the challenge that needs to be met. [/QUOTE]

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