Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Backx

> -Original Message-
> From: Tero Pelander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 13 March 2008 07:29
> To: Ben Backx
> Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel
> 
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:19:58PM -, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> >> I was wondering if there's some info to find on how to implement
> (and
> >> test) multi-channel receiving?
> 
> One such program that is easy to understand due to modularity is
> dvbyell. It has separate code for tuner part and separate code for
> splitting MPTS (multiple program transport stream) into many single
> program transport streams.
> 
> http://www.dvbyell.org/


Thank you everybody for the answers so far, I do have enough software-based
solutions to start testing.
However, there's still the question: can filtering be done in the driver?
Are there any drivers that support this or which dvb-api-functions need to
be implemented?

Regards,
Ben


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Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel

2008-03-12 Thread Ben Backx
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Rowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 12 March 2008 13:20
> To: Ben Backx
> Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
> Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there's some info to find on how to implement (and
> > test)
> > multi-channel receiving?
> > It's possible, because dvb uses streams and the driver is currently
> > capable
> > to filter one channel, but how can I implement the support of
> > multi-channel
> > filtering?
> > Is there perhaps an open-source driver supporting this that I can
> have a
> > look at?
> 
> Check out the dvbstreamer project:
> 
> http://dvbstreamer.sourceforge.net/
> 
> This allows multi-channel recording / streaming if the DVB device
> supports
> sending the whole transport stream (some usb devices do not support
> this).
> This works by sending the whole transport stream to the dvbstreamer
> program, then this program allows filtering out and recording separate
> channels from that stream as required.
> 
> This isn't a driver level solution, but might provide the function you
> need.

It's (partly) for a research project, so I have to look at all possible
solutions, software being one, so dvbstreamer is part of the solution :-)
The others are at driver and hardware level (the hardware supports this).



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Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel

2008-03-12 Thread Zaheer Merali
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Stephen Rowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>  >
>  > I was wondering if there's some info to find on how to implement (and
>  > test)
>  > multi-channel receiving?
>  > It's possible, because dvb uses streams and the driver is currently
>  > capable
>  > to filter one channel, but how can I implement the support of
>  > multi-channel
>  > filtering?
>  > Is there perhaps an open-source driver supporting this that I can have a
>  > look at?
>
>  Check out the dvbstreamer project:
>
>  http://dvbstreamer.sourceforge.net/
>
>  This allows multi-channel recording / streaming if the DVB device supports
>  sending the whole transport stream (some usb devices do not support this).
>  This works by sending the whole transport stream to the dvbstreamer
>  program, then this program allows filtering out and recording separate
>  channels from that stream as required.
>
>  This isn't a driver level solution, but might provide the function you need.
>
>

Read this blog post, this solution does not take the full stream but
just filters the pids it requires for the different channels allowing
it to work on most USB devices also.

http://zaheer.merali.org/articles/2008/02/29/multiple-dvb-channels-streamed-by-flumotion-from-same-capture-card/

Zaheer

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Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel

2008-03-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there's some info to find on how to implement (and
> test)
> multi-channel receiving?
> It's possible, because dvb uses streams and the driver is currently
> capable
> to filter one channel, but how can I implement the support of
> multi-channel
> filtering?
> Is there perhaps an open-source driver supporting this that I can have a
> look at?

Check out the dvbstreamer project:

http://dvbstreamer.sourceforge.net/

This allows multi-channel recording / streaming if the DVB device supports
sending the whole transport stream (some usb devices do not support this).
This works by sending the whole transport stream to the dvbstreamer
program, then this program allows filtering out and recording separate
channels from that stream as required.

This isn't a driver level solution, but might provide the function you need.


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Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel

2008-03-12 Thread Ben Backx


> -Original Message-
> From: Jarryd Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 12 March 2008 11:32
> To: Ben Backx
> Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
> Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel
> 
> 2008/3/12 Ben Backx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there's some info to find on how to implement (and
> test)
> > multi-channel receiving?
> >
> > It's possible, because dvb uses streams and the driver is currently
> capable
> > to filter one channel, but how can I implement the support of multi-
> channel
> > filtering?
> >
> > Is there perhaps an open-source driver supporting this that I can
> have a
> > look at?
> >
> 
> AFAIK tuners can already receive from multiple channels as long as they
> are on the same transponder (I think that's the right word). So in
> Australia
> you can receive channel 7 and the channel 7 guide because they are
> broadcast together. But I don't think you can do anymore than that.
> 
> I think mythtv is capable of doing it so you could have a look at that.
> 
> Jarryd.


The tuner-part is no problem indeed (as you said: as long as the channels
are on the same transponder).
But for the moment: the driver-part is the problem, I don't think my driver
supports the filtering of more than one channel at a time.
So my question is: which (existing) driver does support multi-channel
filtering? So I can have a look and see what modifications have to be made
to my driver to implement multi-channel filtering.

Ben



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Re: [linux-dvb] Implementing support for multi-channel

2008-03-12 Thread Jarryd Beck
2008/3/12 Ben Backx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there's some info to find on how to implement (and test)
> multi-channel receiving?
>
> It's possible, because dvb uses streams and the driver is currently capable
> to filter one channel, but how can I implement the support of multi-channel
> filtering?
>
> Is there perhaps an open-source driver supporting this that I can have a
> look at?
>

AFAIK tuners can already receive from multiple channels as long as they
are on the same transponder (I think that's the right word). So in Australia
you can receive channel 7 and the channel 7 guide because they are
broadcast together. But I don't think you can do anymore than that.

I think mythtv is capable of doing it so you could have a look at that.

Jarryd.

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