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                      6: <h1>Documentation</h1>
1.9       mchehab     7: <h2>Linux Media Infrastructure API</h2>
                      8: <p>
                      9:  Since Set, 15, V4L and DVB API's got integrated into a compendium that presents both API's, plus the IR 
1.12    ! mchehab    10: input event mapping. The <a href="downloads/v4l-dvb-apis"/>Linux Media Infrastructure API</a> converges 
1.9       mchehab    11: the common body of knowledge for the kernel to userspace API's used by media drivers.
                     12: </p>
                     13: <p>
1.11      mchehab    14:  The original V4L and DVB API specs are still available as separate documents. However, we're updating 
                     15: only Linux Media Infrastructure API.
1.9       mchehab    16: </p>
1.4       mchehab    17: <h2>DVB</h2>
1.1       js         18: <p>
1.11      mchehab    19:   You can find the original PDF version of the Linux DVB API version 3
1.1       js         20:   in the <a href="downloads/linux-dvb-api-1.0.0.pdf">download area</a>.
                     21: </p>
                     22: <p>
1.3       js         23:   A small collection of READMEs and FAQs is included in the
                     24:   Linux kernel source tree in linux/Documentation/dvb/
1.5       js         25:   (<a href="http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/tip/linux/Documentation/dvb/">
                     26:   browse docs in the mercurial repository</a>).
1.3       js         27: </p>
1.4       mchehab    28: <h2>Video4Linux</h2>
                     29: <p>
1.11      mchehab    30:   A browsable online version of Video4Linux2 API updated up to pre-2.6.32
1.7       mchehab    31:   is at <a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/video4linux/API/V4L2_API/spec-single/v4l2.html">here</a>.
1.4       mchehab    32: </p>
                     33: <p>
1.7       mchehab    34:   Although it is possible to generate a PDF version of the Video4Linux2 
                     35:   API, the generated PDF is not very useful, since some tables
                     36:   and pictures are larger than the output page. So the better is to use 
                     37:   the browable documentation.
1.4       mchehab    38: </p>
                     39: <p>
1.6       mchehab    40:   For developers, 
                     41:  <a href="http://lwn.net">LWN.net</a> 
                     42: is writing a 
                     43: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/203924/">V4L2 series of articles</a>
                     44: focusing at the development of a Linux V4L2 driver. 
1.4       mchehab    45: </p>
                     46: <p>
1.6       mchehab    47:   There's a new V4L Drivers guide at 
                     48:    <a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/video4linux/v4l2dwgNew.html">here</a>.
                     49: <br>
                     50:   PS.: This is a newer document and might be suject to some errors. Contributions are wanted. Also notice that the main guide shall always be V4L API2.
1.4       mchehab    51: </p>
                     52: <p>
1.6       mchehab    53:   Video4Linux API version 1 is obsolete. Driver and application 
                     54: developers are requested to migrate their work to V4L2 API.
                     55: <br>
                     56: There's an effort in course to remove its support from 
                     57: the drivers, keeping just a conversion module for keeping 
                     58: compatibility for the old binary-only V4L1 applications.</p>
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