From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from n78.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([98.136.44.42]) by www.linuxtv.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ke4ok-0000L2-MH for linux-dvb@linuxtv.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:19:57 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:17:06 -0700 (PDT) From: barry bouwsma To: linux-dvb , urishk@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <247734.79799.qm@web38801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <730162.85795.qm@web46115.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Multiproto API/Driver Update Reply-To: free_beer_for_all@yahoo.com List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org Errors-To: linux-dvb-bounces+mchehab=infradead.org@linuxtv.org List-ID: --- On Thu, 9/11/08, Uri Shkolnik wrote: > > It is from my perspective in Europe that I write, > > > I'm not so sure. As I see it, if it depends on number > of users DVB-H comes last after CMMB and ISDB-T. Then let them add their support ;-P I just discovered that I should be within reception range of a (subscription) DVB-H mux, though sticking a directional antenna out the window did not show any signal (but also not on other previously-received frequencies) -- but climbing a nearby hill should net me a useful signal, maybe two. For DAB, a simple paperclip antenna will get me one ensemble, a second should be receivable as well, and perhaps with a good antenna, some others may appear. So, I can test real-world broadcasts and get the actual hands- on experience I need to understand and be able to help -- which is more than I can for the other missing standards, as I'm not so good with the theoretical... > I know the TerraTec device you refer to, and theoretically > it can be used as DAB radio receiver. The current LinuxTV > lacks the code to support it. [...] > There is a open source module from Siano that enable DAB @ > Linux. Is this something I would be able to download? (Feel free to mail me privately if you don't want it available to other developers, though they could certainly fit it into a suitable API much better than I could) I've searched with g00gle but haven't found any source to download. (And if drivers under Linux for the other modes (T-DMB, DVB-H) are available, they may help me to better understand those modes as well) > The problem is that this module is not a part of DVB > and does not communicates with DVB in any way, but it uses > its own character devices in order to communicate with user > space applications. It may be converted of course to > something that uses DVB, and also be more generic. There is another USB DAB device out there (apparently no longer available, and if so, at an `early-adopter' price) with kernel support. Perhaps there's some shared functionality that can be combined, somehow, and make easier possibly adding support for some of the small handful of other DAB-able devices. Anyway, if I'm able to start to play with my device and DAB under linux, that should keep me busy and quiet for some time thanks, barry bouwsma _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb