On Wed, Nov 23, 2005, Steve Toth wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > >IMHO: > >Think of a frontend as a device which outputs an MPEG-2 TS. > >The number of TSs you can receive simultaneously determines > >the number of frontend devices. > > > Interesting. That's the exact opposite of what I've always thought of as > a front end. A front end to me means an implementation of a tuner/demod > and/or stream. So, for example - even though a hardware products is only > capable of delivering one physical stream at once, it may have two > frontends which expose the two different behaviors in the same design. Well, the "frontend" term is a bit overloaded. Let's try to clarify: A NIM is a device which outputs an MPEG-2 TS. The number of TSs you can receive simultaneously determines the number of device nodes you need to control the available NIMs. Better? Johannes
