Hi all, After quite a while (and quite a lot of work, pulling out hair, one can say) i got H.264 HD (H.264 is MPEG4 part 10) streams over a satellite using a STB0899 demodulator. The driver isn't yet in the kernel, cleanups pending on it and hence. It is working now and S2 video/data can be received.
The driver is officially endorsed by ST Microelectronics also. It is the first DVB-S2 demodulator under Linux, or even for that matter the STB0899 is the first DVB-S demodulator chip on a 90nm process running at 90 Mhz (the normal demodulators run at 4 Mhz) The official announcement is here .. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.dvb/31146/match=dvb+s2+stb0899 The repository is here .. http://linuxtv.org/hg/~manu/stb0899-c5 Here are some clips to burn your CPU 's (Note: H.264 decoding needs a fairly high end machine, with a great graphics card, prolly a high end nvidia card, alongwith the latest ffmpeg snapshot to run with mplayer. Xine and friends do not play at all) http://jusst.no-ip.org/test.ts http://jusst.no-ip.org/BBCHD1.ts Burn all your CPU 's .. :-) regards, manu
