DVB update
People have asked me about DVB status in GStreamer. The recent release of gst-plugins-bad includes the dvb plugin. The plugin is reliable and stable and is being used in flumotion-dvb, which we are using with great effect on our Flumotion Streaming Platform., Most of the work has actually been on improving our transport stream demuxer (MPL licenced) to support multiple sections and also to provide applications details of what is in the transport stream. Information such as what program numbers are in the transport stream, what types of elementary stream are in that program, what language the audio streams are in, etc. I have also created a dvb-si-1 branch, where the demuxer can provide information about what actual show is on what program, what the name of the tv channel for a program is etc. Also I have recently acquired a Dreambox DM7025and have it booting off an NFS root. GStreamer and dvbsrc runs great on it. Also tmbinc has written dvbmediasinks for it, which take mpeg elementary streams and display them using hardware to decode. What I am currently working on is handling the scrambling tables and pids and to write a GStreamer element that given the ECM and EMM pids from the transport stream and the video and audio streams that are scrambled and decode them by communicating with dccamd (cam module for dreamcrypt) which runs on the box.
A few days before the launch of the Wii in Spain, I picked mine up from Toys R Us here in Barcelona. It is extremely good fun and considering my main gaming in the last 5 years has been almost only Pro Evolution Soccer (am not really a gamer), I keep on wanting to play. I have Wii Sports, Wii Play, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Super Mario Bros (virtual console) and Legend of Zelda (virtual console). The use of the controller in the games is just genius. My favourite game is probably Tennis on Wii Sports, but a lot of the mini-games on Rayman are really good fun. The graphics are better than I was expecting after hearing people slag off the Wii for its poor graphics. I am now looking forward to Tiger Woods and Pro Evolution Soccer on the Wii..
Over Christmas and New Year, Alia, myself and my Mum went to the South of Spain for 2 weeks starting off in Benalmedina (close to Malaga), going through Granada, Cordoba, Sevilla, Faro (in Portugal), Rota (near Cadiz) and Gibraltar and had an amazing time. I plan to put up the pictures soon.