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The '''Broadcast Driver Architecture''' (short '''BDA''') is [[wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft]]'s Alternative to the LinuxDVB Driver API. Has some serious drawbacks especially in the [[DiSEqC]] part, but also some interesting details. [[MPEG2 Decoders]] are implemented in software as DirectShow Filters.
The '''Broadcast Driver Architecture''' (short '''BDA''') is to [[wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft]] Windows operating systems as the [[Development: Linux DVB API history and future|DVB API]] is to Linux.


BDA has some serious drawbacks especially in the [[DiSEqC]] part, but also some interesting details. [[MPEG-2 Decoder|MPEG-2 decoders]] are implemented in software as DirectShow Filters.


==Links ==
==Links ==
* http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/VidCapStream/hh/vidcapstream/bdad_f5ada6c2-5524-47fa-89a7-3684a96df126.xml.asp The Microsoft BDA Driver Page]
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/VidCapStream/hh/vidcapstream/bdad_f5ada6c2-5524-47fa-89a7-3684a96df126.xml.asp The Microsoft BDA Driver Page]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdadev/ A Sourceforge Project dedicated to the development of Open-Source BDA Drivers and Tools]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdadev/ A Sourceforge Project dedicated to the development of Open-Source BDA Drivers and Tools]



Latest revision as of 23:41, 9 December 2008

The Broadcast Driver Architecture (short BDA) is to Microsoft Windows operating systems as the DVB API is to Linux.

BDA has some serious drawbacks especially in the DiSEqC part, but also some interesting details. MPEG-2 decoders are implemented in software as DirectShow Filters.

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