[vdr] Proposal/Announcement: Alternative SI library

[Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>]

Hi,

when working with libdtv, I noticed some of its shortcomings:
- the xMem-stuff is not thread-safe, VDR even has to use a global mutex
- it is not possible to take a single part of a parsed structure, e.g. a 
single descriptor, and store it for later use (this also comes down to xMem)
- it makes heavy use of macros
- it's plain C, VDR is object-oriented
- there is even code which g++ refuses to eat (xForEach)
- everything is parsed, even if you only want to read a part

I want to announce an alternative library, libsi, available from
http://www.wiesweg-online.de/linux/vdr/libsi-0.1.tar.gz

Advantages:
- Object-oriented approach, C++
- thread-safe in the sense that you can use the library from different threads
  with as much objects as you like. Thread-safe access to a single object may  
require some work on the underlying storage class


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