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  • parsa68
    Newbie
    • Jan 2012
    • 3
    #1

    BDA.Device drivers

    WHo does have this device?
    Tags: bdadevice
    • herrr
      Experienced Board Member
      • Jan 2012
      • 1081
      #2
      Re: BDA.Device drivers

      Originally posted by parsa68
      WHo does have this device?

      BDA is not a device, but a way to connect devices to pc.
      Now we can say it's the standard for DVB.

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        • besit
          Board Senior Member
          • Aug 2011
          • 343
          #3
          Re: BDA.Device drivers

          Wikipedia says
          The Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) is a Microsoft standard for digital video capture on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It encompasses the ATSC and DVB standards and gives developers a standardized method of accessing TV tuner devices (usually PCI, PCI-E or USB). It is the driver component of Microsoft TV Technologies, and is used by hardware vendors to create digital TV tuning devices for Windows, and also to support new network types or custom hardware functionality. BDA is documented in the Windows DDK (Driver Development Kit) and the Platform SDK. Ideally, any BDA-compliant software should be compatible with any BDA-compliant hardware.
          In the earlier times there were DVB cards from Technisat. OS treated them like a network adapters (and that's what they are). They had so called "WDM-drivers"
          Then M$ implemented BDA architecture and everyone begins to write BDA-compliant drivers for their hardware. Modern Technisat cards also has BDA driver, the screwy and unusable ones. So "beautiful" Skystar HD works good in xp on WDM drivers. When on BDA drivers it always hang on app exit, so you need a kind of reset tool.

          You may need BDA drivers to run your hardware in BDA compliant DVB software or in OS like win7, 8 e.t.c.

          So
          If you have a modern card from something nameless like TEVII you may be sure you have BDA drivers on suited CD
          If you have a Technisat card BDA drivers are in root folder or in BDA folder of installation CD
          If you have a vintage hardware like SkyStar1 - there are NO BDA drivers for this card

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            • herrr
              Experienced Board Member
              • Jan 2012
              • 1081
              #4
              Re: BDA.Device drivers

              I add to your very good explanation a little fix: you say that WDM-drivers were something peculiar to Technisat devices.
              Really it's more correct to say that once there were not standardized drivers, but different for every device.
              As a matter of facts there were other WDM-drivers (Technotrend for example).
              I still have an old Technotrend card for DVB-T, now its WDM-drivers are supported only by Progdvb and not by DvbDream and DvbViewer.

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