[mythtv] dvb-s2

[Yeasah Pell]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>
> MythTV has supported DVB-S2 since the 0.20 release. But
> I've been told that DVB-S2 won't be supported by the Linux
> DVB project or added to their main branch until after the
> next DVB API rewrite. What this means for MythTV is that
> we need to wait until the DVB guys settle on a new API
> before we can add support for official Linux DVB project
> supported DVB-S2.
>
>   

This isn't quite true -- there has to date been no support for DVB-S2 in 
any linux software that I'm aware of. The stuff which is sometimes 
labeled DVB-S2 is just support for turbo 8PSK modulation for the benefit 
of receiving certain proprietary HD signals in north america, but the 
USB card which that driver supports does not implement the DVB-S2 
standard -- and in fact, standard S2 cards don't implement all the 
features required to tune the proprietary signals targeted by this 
device. It really has nothing to do with DVB-S2.

The new DVB API (not released yet) was created to support the 
considerable added complexity of DVB-S2. More mythtv code will be 
required eventually, but the drivers and API aren't even there yet so 
that's probably still a ways off.