DVB Networking Module (dvb-net)

Introduction

Besides transporting video, audio, EPG and other related information, DVB networks can also be used to transport Internet (IP/IPv6) data. The recent DVB-H standard even transports the video, audio and other data (like the EPG) over IP.

Status

The current version of DVB networking supports the following protocols:

• Multi-protocol Encapsulation (MPE)
• Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE)

The functionality of ULE can be augmented by using so-called ULE Extensions. GSE also supports this feature. In dvb-net, GSE and ULE are based on the same Extension Interface and thus both can access and use the same ULE Extensions modules.

Mercurial Repositories

• dvbnet-mod
  Contains the dvb-net module as well as a modified version of the dvb-core module.
• dvbnet-app
  Contains the new version of the dvbnet tool for managing DVB Network interfaces.
• bb-demux
  Extension of the DVB demultiplexer which enables it to process DVB-S2 Base-band frames.
• dvbloop
  A virtual DVB adapter
• gse-testing
  GSE development and testing repository. Contains patches from the following repositories: dvbnet-mod, bb-demux and dvbloop.