DVB/ATSC library?

[Markus Rechberger]

> +1 ... I have a driver for PCI attached mantis cards.  It simply exports a
> buffer with the raw mpeg ts stream to userland where it also handles the
> frontend programming.  The missing link is something to make sense of the mpeg
> ts stream.
>
> IMHO, the v4l2 api is terribly broken by design - as it mandates at least one
> copy per ts-frame (possibly more than one), but as it is unlikely that we will
> convince enough people to get behind a sensible API now, I'd also like to have
> a lib that bridges the gap.
>

there's the DVB API available for DVB/ATSC
The v4l2 API is just to be used with analog TV (and some mpeg analog
grabbers .. this is a little bit messed up yes).
But clearly there's a separation.
Linux DVB has 2 APIs actually
* DVB API v3
* DVB API v5.x (DVB-S2 aka S2-API)

both APIs are fairly easy but VDR, Kaffeine and MythTV (not entirely
sure about MythTV) nowadays only support the S2-API only, it is very
easy to write a DVB API v5.0  to v3 wrapper.

Have you had a look at frontend.h of linuxtv? This is more or less the
most important API which you should support.
The section filtering/demux filtering in kernelspace is something I
would consider to be optional. BSD should definitely support it (best
is in userspace).

Markus