IP over DVB

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Tue Jun 24 06:40:57 PDT 2003


>
> There is FreeBSD driver for Technisat Skystar-1 DVB card written in Russia.
> I've mentioned it in my previous e-mail. It have readme.eng which describe
> in short how to setup DVB-MPE reception under FreeBSD 4.x
> This driver is also ported to OpenBSD and seems will be supported in future
> under FreeBSD/OpenBSD by author.
>
This seems to be the same card which is sold by Siemens-Fujitsu, Hauppauge,
Technotrend, etc... The one other widely available implementation is
the korean KiSS-stuff which does not enjoy open-source support.

I wonder if the FreeBSD driver is designed according to the OST
specification so applications like vdr, dvbstream, etc. would work
out of the box.

Pete


> Eugene Vedistchev
>
> Petri Helenius wrote:
> > Most common acronym would be Digital Video Broadcasting,
> > a set of standards defining audio, video, text, teletext, data, etc.
> > encoding, modulation, encapsulation, etc. over Satellite, Cable
> > or Terrestial medium.
> >
> > Only reason why I have a linux-box is to run DVB-S stuff.
> > Not sure what it would take to have linux-kld╢s to run on FreeBSD.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >>what is DVB?
> >>Digital Video Bus?
> >>
> >>
> >>On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:48:31PM +0200, Vincent Jardin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I am looking for an IP over DVB-S and MPE support on FreeBSD.
> >>>>
> >>>>I could only find a very old driver for FreeBSD 2:
> >>>>  http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/eduros/index-dvb.html
> >>>>
> >>>>Are there any better support for FreeBSD 4 or 5 ?
> >>>
> >>>I'm interested in DVB support. I do not have any funding or support
> >>>for work on this, nor do I have equipment, so it's bound to be
> >>>'when I can find the time and the money'. But I should make my
> >>>interest in this area known.
> >>>
> >>>BMS
> >>>_______________________________________________
> >>>freebsd-net at freebsd.org mailing list
> >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> >>>
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>freebsd-net at freebsd.org mailing list
> >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > freebsd-net at freebsd.org mailing list
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> >
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-net at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>



More information about the freebsd-net mailing list