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- The DVB drivers which are included in mainline 2.6 kernels - are maintained in the dvb-kernel CVS module. The linux_2_4 - branch of dvb-kernel contains drivers for 2.4 kernels. Note, however, - that newer drivers will be added to 2.6 first and will not necessarily - be backported. -
+The media drivers for the Linux Kernel Subsystems, which consists of + devices for webcams, analog TV, digital TV and remote controllers. + The video4linux subsystem was included on Kernel + 2.2, and the dvb and remote controller subsystems was included in the + 2.6 Kernel.
+ +The media_tree.git + contains the latest development drivers. In order to test them, a + media build tree + is provided, allowing the compilation of the media drivers without + the need of changing the entire kernel. It currently supports kernel + versions from 2.6.32 to 3.x.
+ +A small number of DVB test and utility programs, including szap and dvbscan, are in - the CVS module dvb-apps. + the dvb-apps mercurial + repository. +
++ Provides a series of utilities for media devices, allowing to handle + the proprietary formats available at most webcams (libv4l), and providing + tools to test V4L devices. +
++ It also provides tools to manage the remote controller tables available + on most media devices.
- The dvb-kernel-v4 CVS module contains an updated DVB core - subsystem and one prototype driver for the revised - Linux DVB API V4. More info on the V4 API - can be found in the Wiki. + They are available at the + v4l-utils.git + repository.
+- The CVS module "DVB" contains older drivers - for the 2.4 kernel. They are mostly of historic interest. + The Xawtv application allows to watch television at the PC. It were written by + Gerd Hoffmann and is probably one of the first applications available for it. + There are two versions of xawtv available:
+Xawtv 3.x: Supports only analog +devices (TV and webcams).
+Xawtv 4.x: Supports both analog +and digital devices.
+They are not being actively maintained, but, from time to time, we add +bug fixes and eventually new features, expecially on Xawtv 3.x, since most +distributions pack it.
+libsoftmpeg is a ffmpeg/libavcodec based software mpeg decoder