On Monday 22 May 2006 19:54, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2006 14:21, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > > >... > > > >I also say it again: I am deeply dissatisfied that none > > > >of the people you mentioned at the bottom of > > > >http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-May/010076.html > > > >seem to care enough to participate in the discussion. > > > >(Not to mention that app developers also don't > > > >seem to care -- after all these are the ones who'll have > > > >to deal with the new API.) > > > > > > > >Maybe we should just put the API change off for now. :-( > > > > > > Well, as an application developer (VDR) I'd like to be able to > > > support DVB-S2, but I guess my knowledge about all this is too > > > limited to understand what this heated debate is all about. > > > > > > I always thought that DVB-S2 is just "DVB-S with a new modulation", > > > > IMHO the current use of DVB-S2 is just that, i.e. basically > > the difference between the satellite_delivery_descriptor > > as defined in EN 300 468 version 1.5.1 vs. 1.7.1. > > > > (So it's actually not just a new modulation but also > > the new roll-off factor.) > > > > Current use of DVB-S2 to my knowledge is Premiere HD on Astra 19.2E. > > If someone know other *current* uses of DVB-S2 please speak up. > > Astra 28.2E has S2 streams. In the UK, nearly all of Sky's HDTV streams are > S2 - so its pretty obvious where they're heading with that. > > I will check if the S2 descriptors are used in those NITs. Hi - I'm afraid the NITs on the 28.2E sat do not mention the S2 frequencies, so I have no idea if they use them or not on those. I don't have an S2 card and we don't have a driver for any (yet) so no way to know either way. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
