Rewrite of DVB related elements

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 10:53 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:

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> If I'm not mistaken this would also mean that a) a lot of code from
> the
> dvb plugin would disappear as it is handled in libdvbv5 already and
> b)
> that we finally handle modern channel files. But would we still
> handle
> old channel files?

libdvbv5 has a DVBv3 compatibility mode so yes old zap format files are
handled.

Currently GStreamer is DVBv3 with a DVB-T2 added bit, that doesn't
really work. This whole thing definitely needs to be DVBv5 since this
would give usable DVB-T2. So the current code has to either be
rewritten or replaced for GStreamer to be useful going forward.

I appreciate the licence issue and have raised this on the libdvbv5
emailing list. If this cannot be resolved then GStreamer will have to
have a different implementation of the exact same code that is in
libdvbv5.

> Also it's important that the MPEG-TS bits are still exposed in the
> normal way by the dvb elements, and not somehow handled/hidden by
> libdvbv5.

libdvbv5 does have it's own MPEG-TS codes. So the GStreamer MPEG-TS
code is replicating libdvbv5 code for that just as for the frontend
managment. I am not clear yet if the libdvbv5 code is harmonious with
the needs of GStreamer – more research needed here.


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