hi klaus, > I thought that when (if?) these new PC DVB cards come > out, they would be able to receive both DVB-S _and_ DVB-S2. > So from VDR's point of view this would just be one single > device and the device would decide, depending on the parameters > given to it when tuning, which method it actually is. as different tuning parameters are needed, how to decide when structures/ioctls do keep backwards compatibility? > Of course the current method used to distinguish the device > types in VDR (FE_QPSK = DVB-S, FE_QAM = DVB-C and FE_OFDM = DVB-T) > wouldn't work any more, so other criteria might be necessary. > But basically a DVB-S device would be just one single device > (with only one single frontend), whether it can only do the > "old" DVB-S, or both DVB-S and DVB-S2. > > At least that's how I would hope this would behave in the future. afaik dvb-s2 is backwards compatible to dvb-s have a look at my mail some minutes ago, there's an example for a _maybe_ solution - also to keep old versions of vdr/neutrino/enigma/whatever working. regards marcel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20051123/7c3c649d/attachment-0001.pgp
