Hi, Currently the DVB API is of version 3.2. We have had API changes and changes to no end to it. In fact there was much learning from the V3 API than any other version. We have an old V4 API that was supposed to be taking over the V3 API. But V4 is considered almost dead due to lack of modern hardware support such as SOC's for STB's. While being on the V3 frontend API overhaul, i found to much dismay that it would be much better to revamp V4 into a newer API version such as V5, rather than scratching with V3 for ages together, resulting in just unnecessary talks and discussions. What i find interesting with the V4 API * A better demuxer * ARIB extensions but that doesn't mean that V4 has all that we need. We have had significant inroads, milestones and learning with mostly the frontend API in V3 where changes were happening quite fast, though the CA API can't be ignored. With both aspects taken into consideration, i am of the thought that we should go ahead with taking the best of what we have as a new experimental API altogether. I had talked with Michael and Ralph on this aspect, they were quite happy to proceed in that direction. It would be nice to have your views on this aspect of going ahead with the new API. I hope this doesn't mark the beginning of another flame war. Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
