[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API proposal

[Emard <emard@softhome.net>]

The V4 proposals seem reasonable.

I would also suggest the global idea should be
to try to optimize the api for budget-type cards only, 
and silently discard any onbard mpeg or hardware
demux as if we already had mpeg2 decoder and descrambler
in open source either in the kernel or as external application.

Sooner we will all have cpus fast enough to do all the
demuxing and deskrambling with less than 10% cpu usage.

Someone will make open source code for missing mpeg2.

Remember analogy with expensive early soundcards with 
onboard sound FX/midi/mpeg dsp chips, 
compared to simple dummy 16 bit wav output 'dsp' chips.

Nowdays we all have simple dsp wav output cards while
mp3 decompression is done by the software.

So it will be with dvb.

Emard


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