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Johannes' and Michael's current Project. The API was extended to support all features of today's latest STBs. Includes some cleanups. |
Johannes' and Michael's current Project. The API was extended to support all features of today's latest STBs. Includes some cleanups. |
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== v5: tomorrow. == |
== v5: tomorrow. == |
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Revision as of 13:02, 4 November 2005
Introduction
Digital Video Broadcasting is an evolving field and every month new chipsets, STBs and software becomes available. Demands and Requirements change and thus even the best-established APIs have to evolve.
We tried to develop the public API in the past in a very conservative way so that application developers see only a minimum impact on their already-written code. Here a short overview over the pasttime milestones:
v1: the old Nokia API
Originally implemented on the first AV711x-based Siemens/Technotrend DVB-C and DVB-S cards by Christian Theiss and the Metzler Brothers for Convergence Integrated Media.
v2: the NEWSTRUCT branch
The first major Refactoring Step, after this process had stabilized we were ready for all DVB-S, DVB-C and DVB-T cards and STBs available in those days.
v3: DVB is part of the official Kernel
This API version mainly contained namespace cleanups but was mostly binary-compatible with the NEWSTRUCT branch.
Today hosted in the dvb-kernel module in CVS.
v4: use all features of today's STBs
Johannes' and Michael's current Project. The API was extended to support all features of today's latest STBs. Includes some cleanups.
v5: tomorrow.
(let's see;)