that's how it works. point a free-to-air dish at the right place in the sky, demodulate the DVB-S2 signal, and it's often IP traffic moving through mpeg transport streams.

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thakoppno 5 hours ago | parent [-]

it’s the claim of it being a file system that’s throwing me. obviously nbd but maybe my mental models broken again.

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lmm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The difference between a file system and a container format is mostly a matter of perspective - indeed OSX literally uses "disk images" as their container format. Is .zip a filesystem? You probably wouldn't want to use it natively on a disk, but for a lot of purposes it's the same kind of thing.

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pabs3 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

http://tom7.org/harder/

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atoav 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

File system is the wrong word. What they should have used is file format.

It is not wrong that you can have a file (bits and bytes encoded in the shape described by a file format) on some remote point. If you have an index of those files where you can programmatically choose between multiple files that could even pass as a crude "file system". But I doubt this is what they meant to refer to.

It is likelier they wrongly assumed a file system is the system in which a file is organized, where in fact they meant file format.

	▲	T-A an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think they were going for a reasonable analogy, especially when a stream is saved to disk to have its contents extracted: each channel contained in the stream can then be thought of as a separate file, not unlike files in a zipped directory.