From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 06:18:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C442237B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hysteria.spc.org (hysteria.spc.org [195.206.69.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 474D543FD7 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@hysteria.spc.org) Received: (qmail 9008 invoked by uid 5013); 24 Jun 2003 13:16:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:16:33 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <20030624131633.GQ31354@spc.org> References: <20030624082258.GE32325@spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP over DVB X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:18:13 -0000 On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:42:00AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > what is DVB? > Digital Video Bus? DVB stands for Digital Video Broadcasting. It is a standard for broadcasting multiplexed data/audio/video content, typically over a satellite, cable or terrestrial transmission medium. More information can be found at www.dvb.org. MPEG 2 system streams are involved, much like VoD efforts involving ATM, another spare time interest of mine... Most of the IP-over-Satellite offerings we're seeing now use DVB. My interest in DVB is two-fold: 1) to potentially provide FreeBSD-based solutions for open satellite broadband access; 2) to potentially endow FreeBSD with the capability to process multimedia streams using DVB as a source. Whilst I'd like to be able to watch digital satellite broadcasts on one of my FreeBSD workstations, I'd also like to do a bit more than that. BMS