On 01/16/08 14:51, Stephen Rowles wrote: >> A long time ago multiproto was said to be integrated in *near* future... >> to my great disapointment it still isn't, which is certainly not a good >> thing for the user at least... >> >> Could we hope to be *near* inclusion now ? >> >> In the meantime I am really thankfull to all who made multiproto >> available, and I hope the problems of the past could be forgiven. > > I would like to add a note to this, for those that haven't heard the BBC > will be starting a new satellite service soon, spring 08 according to > their website http://www.freesat.co.uk/home.php. > > This will be DVB-S2 transmissions including HD content, and will use the > Eurobird 1 satellite situated at 28.5° east (from what I can find on the > web). > > Once this service launches I imagine there will be lots of people (me > included!) who will want to upgrade their Linux based media centres and > therefore get HD content. > > As I understand it the Multiproto stuff is a pre-req in a chain required > to get DVB-S2 working, so I expect that there will soon be a large number > of people from the UK wanting to have this working so they can upgrade > their media centres and get HD programs. I also find the current situation rather confusing. What exactly is *the* multiproto driver I should use when (soon) starting to adopt the various patches to VDR regarding DVB-S2 etc.? It would be nice if ther was a central repository (at linuxtv.org?) where *the* driver could be downloaded, just as it was in the good old days... Klaus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
