[mythtv] DVB Support suggested Roadmap

Ben Bucksch linux.news at bucksch.org
Mon Apr 21 04:09:14 EDT 2003


Richard King wrote:

>only requires getting the MPEG data into Myth. External channel changing 
>can take care of the rest.
>
IF the cards or drivers can demultiplex by themselves, then yes, that 
should more or less pretty much out of the box, given that Myth can now 
read MPEG2 from /dev/video.

I am not sure about the Nova cards (which I am looking at). They can't 
demux in hardware, right? Can the driver do that? If so, does it allow 
to read several programs from the same transport stream at once?

>For the 'full' support in Myth I think its important to get the database 
>into a shape that fully encompases the data in channels.conf. I don't like the idea of putting the channels.conf line in one field [...]
>full support and then I think that the everything in one field approach is insufficient anyway.
>
What would you propose? An extra table for DVB?

I thought that the tuning data should all be in one table, and because 
there might be any number of (future) tuning models, I thought that 
putting it all in one field would be the best way.

Ben



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