Broadcast Driver Architecture

The Broadcast Driver Architecture (short BDA) is to Microsoft Windows operating systems as the DVB API is to Linux.

BDA has some serious drawbacks especially in the DiSEqC part, but also some interesting details. MPEG2 decoders are implemented in software as DirectShow Filters.

Links

• The Microsoft BDA Driver Page
• A Sourceforge Project dedicated to the development of Open-Source BDA Drivers and Tools