> > Ben Backx wrote: > > Sorry, late reply, been busy with some other stuff. > > Back to driver-development. > > > > The hardware supports multi-PID-filtering, so that's not the problem, > the > > only problem is: which functions have to be implemented in my driver? > In > > other words: is there an application that says to the driver: give me > the > > stream with that PID and which function is called to do that? I'm > guessing > > DMX_SET_PES_FILTER? > > I see. > To be honest with you I don't know the difference between kernel level > filter and hardware filter. > > The way I see it, but I think it might depend on the card as well, is > that the driver in the kernel > always receives the whole TS and then does a software filter which you > can trigger via > DMX_SET_PES_FILTER. > > I don't know anything about hardware filter. > Someone else should maybe answer this question. > The hardware can handle it (up to a certain number of PID-filters). The main difference: cpu-load. When the hardware handles the filtering, the cpu can be busy with other stuff... (at least, that's what I think). The (performance) difference between driver and software will be little, I expect. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
