Can you give some examples of cards based on that frontend?<br><br>Thanks, Mark.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yeasah Pell</b> <<a href="mailto:yeasah@schwide.com">yeasah@schwide.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Mark Buechler wrote:<br><br>> Here in NA there are quite a few free DCII feeds available. I've been
<br>> doing some research on whether it's possible to receive these feeds<br>> via a PCI card similar to a DVB card. So far I've found one which is<br>> capable of decoding DCII signals but doesn't yet have driver support.
<br>> I've also been researching the software side and from what I can find<br>> the DCII format is very similar to the DVB standard with the exception<br>> of a few additional tables which need parsing.<br>><br>
> Has anyone ever done any work on DCII systems or know of any standards<br>> documents concerning this standard? The DVB card which is capable of<br>> decoding DCII is the Genpix 8psk module. Does anyone know of anymore
<br>> hardware decoders supporting DCII? FTA in NA is spotty at best. It<br>> seems there are more DCII FTA feeds available than DVB feeds. For NA<br>> users, DCII support would a great addition.<br><br>The cx24123-based frontends are capable of DCII. Changes that would be
<br>required to get it to function:<br><br>* A way to select DCII mode from the DVB API.<br>* Changes of the values of one or two cx24123 registers based on this<br>setting.<br>* The FEC code rate table is different for DCII mode, so that would need
<br>to be driven on a different table depending on the mode.<br><br>Not a big deal really. I assume any other cards that support DCII would<br>require similar driver changes. The API change might be contentious,<br>especially since the multistandard DVB API effort would provide a much
<br>nicer framework to make this work with, but it's currently in "political<br>limbo".<br><br>/y<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-dev@mythtv.org">
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