Rewrite of DVB related elements

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Sa, 2016-03-26 at 14:43 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> 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.

For background info, libdvbv5 is GPL licensed.

> > 
> > 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.

That would definitely be a requirement. Our MPEG-TS code is of course
also used for other things than DVB, so it has to stay in any case and
we should try to use the same MPEG-TS code for everything.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com

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