[linux-dvb] DVB & Linux HOWTO (or Guide)

[Alessandro De Donno <alessandro.dedonno@unile.it>]

Hi folks,
I'm finally writing the following HOWTO. It would be complete, so it
could be named "guide". I already wrote some chapters, others will come
soon. Suggestions, contributions, etc. etc. are welcome.

This is the summary, I'll regularly post any "patch":

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DVB & Linux HOWTO

Table of contents
1 Introduction
2 DVB
  2.1 Framing level
    2.1.1 DVB-S
      2.1.1.1 The satellite link
      2.1.1.2 Randomization
      2.1.1.3 Reed-Solomon (outer coding)
      2.1.1.4 Convolutional interleaving
      2.1.1.5 Inner coding
      2.1.1.6 Base-band shaping and modulation
    2.1.2 DVB-C
    2.1.3 DVB-T
  2.2 From elementary streams to MPEG-2 Transport Stream
    2.2.1 Elementary streams (ES)
    2.2.2 Packetised elementary streams (PES)
    2.2.3 Multiplexing and Transport Stream (TS)
    2.2.4 Program specific information (PSI) and DVB Service information
    2.2.5 Digital Storage Media and Command Control (DSM-CC) and
          MultiProtocol Encapsulation (MPE)
    2.2.6 Data scrambling
  2.3 IP over MPEG
  2.4 Return channel via-satellite
3 Linux drivers for satellite cards
  3.1 LinuxTV.org drivers
    3.1.1 "Stand alone" drivers
    3.1.2 "kernel" drivers
  3.2 Metzler's drivers
  3.3 Linux DVB API
4 All you need for your Linux Machine
  4.1 Libraries
  4.2 Audio and Video
    4.2.1 VDR
    4.2.2 xawtv
    4.2.3 mplayer
    4.2.4 tuxzap/tuxview
    4.2.5 dvbtools
    ... (a lot of sw, I know... :-) )
  4.3 Networking
    4.3.1 dvbtune
    4.3.2 dvbnet
    4.3.3 Multicasting
      4.3.3.1 mrouted
      4.3.3.2 smcroute
5 Building a digital box
6 Useful links
7 Conclusions
References
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Cordiali saluti,
Alessandro De Donno (aka aded)

PS: controllo la posta dalle ore 9,30 alle ore 18,30 circa, da lu a ve.

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