On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, CityK wrote: > So there is: > - zap ... intended for developers > - azap ... for ATSC and N.A dig. cable (STCE 07) > - czap ... for DVB-C > - szap ... for DVB-S > - szap2 ... for DVB-S2 > - tzap ... for DVB-T > > Is there any technical reason why these 6 utilities aren't blended > together into a __single__ comprehensive tuning app ... say, "zaptune" > or whatever, for example? Well, I wrote szap at a time when the DVB API only supported DVB-S (for the first generation av7110 based Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge DVB-S cards), because I needed it for my work at convergence integrated media GmbH. The S in szap was supposed to mean "simple". It started as a really tiny testing tool. Later Holger added tzap and czap. Needless to say that I would've integrated T and S support into szap right from the start, but there was nothing I could do about it. So there's no technical reason, it's just a historical artefact. HTH, Johannes _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
