IP over DVB

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:42:00AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> what is DVB?
> Digital Video Bus?

DVB stands for Digital Video Broadcasting. It is a standard for broadcasting
multiplexed data/audio/video content, typically over a satellite, cable
or terrestrial transmission medium. More information can be found at
www.dvb.org. MPEG 2 system streams are involved, much like VoD efforts
involving ATM, another spare time interest of mine...

Most of the IP-over-Satellite offerings we're seeing now use DVB.

My interest in DVB is two-fold:
 1) to potentially provide FreeBSD-based solutions for open satellite
    broadband access;
 2) to potentially endow FreeBSD with the capability to process multimedia
    streams using DVB as a source. Whilst I'd like to be able to watch
    digital satellite broadcasts on one of my FreeBSD workstations, I'd also
    like to do a bit more than that.

BMS