On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Uri Shkolnik <urishk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Barry, > > My name is Uri Shkolnik and I'm Siano's software architect. > > If you would like to add a generic support for DAB, T-DMB, DAB2, DAB-IP, etc. to LinuxTV, it'll be great! > > I can assist you with generic information, plus chipset specific information. > > If you have a DAB related RF feed, I even can, on certain conditions, to supply you with a hardware (USB or SDIO based), I already did so before with different open source / Linux projects. > > I'm not sure that DVB sub-system is the perfect location for DAB related devices, and what about multi-DTV devices? (Siano based chipsets devices support many DTV standards, DVB-x and DAB-y among them), maybe somewhere up the chain (under media/common ? elsewhere? I'm not pretending to be a Linux kernel nor LinuxTV expert). > > Anyway, keep in touch, just letting you know that I'm here... (except my vacation between Sep 19th and Oct 20th :-) Uri, The policy on this mailing list is not to top-post. Email replies should appear below the quoted text -- please keep this in mind for the future. As far as your previous comments, please get over the DVB nomenclature. LinuxDVB is the _name_ of the Linux kernel subsystem that deals with digital media, as a whole, *not* limited to DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T2, DVB-S2, DVB-C2, ATSC, ISDB-T, DVB-H, DMB-TH, DAB, etc etc etc Your comment stating that, "the LinuxTV/DVB sub-system will not support non-DVB standards in the near future" is entirely invalid. There is no reason why the LinuxDVB API cannot be extended to support, as you call them, "non-DVB" standards. Now that you, Uri, have joined our community and are offering help with documentation, specifications, etc, this is a great opportunity to help in adding support for these new standards to the Linux Kernel. Just so that everybody is on the same page here, there are two API proposals on the table. These proposals deal with ways to extend the LinuxDVB API for future expansion. The issue being discussed is *not* how to deal with adding support for additional standards -- we already have that covered. Regardless of whether Manu's proposal or Steve's proposal is accepted, support for the same additional standards will be added, while still leaving room for future expansion. Once the decision is officially made, as per who's API extension proposal is accepted, then I welcome you to start discussing how we can add support for the additional standards into the kernel. Please don't reply to this message -- we're better off dealing with this topic in a _new_ thread, after the API discussions have completed. To continue on with this here will only distract from the threads original topic. Thank you for your input. Regards, Mike Krufky _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
