ISDB-T devices

Currently, There are one driver that support ISDB-T:

ISDB-T open source drivers

dibcom

 The dib0700 implements the new DVBS2API to allow finer control at the ISDB-T parameters.

Devices

- PixelView PlayTV USB SBTVD

pt1

 Earthsoft PT1 Driver

em28xx

Devices

- Leadership ISDB-T - Multilaser ISDB-T

How to make it work with the current dvb-apps version?

Some changes are needed at dvb-apps in order to support the new DVBS2API parameters for ISDB-T. While those changes aren't implemented there and at the userspace apps, you need to use the DVB-T format.

In the case of ISDB-T, the current implementations (Brazil and Japan) use 6 MHz bandwidth with the same ISDB-T Frequency Table. In the future, this is likely to change.

For the device to work, the first step is to seek for the existing channels. This is done by running the 'scan' application:

 scan FrequencyTable >channels.conf

Then, a DVB-T userspace application can be used to play the stream. In the case of Brazil, the application needs to support H.264 for video, HE-AAC for audio, and PMT tables at the mpeg-ts. Currently, only vlc and the newest development versions of mplayer are known to support. However, some stream types are known to not work with none of those two applications, due to some existing bugs.

ISDB-T Boards

PixelView PlayTV USB SBTVD

lsusb - vendor/product id

 ID 1554:5010 Prolink Microsystems Corp. 

Status

 Sep 27 2009 - Working

Driver

 dibcom

Multilaser ISDB-T

lsusb - vendor/product id

 1d19:3102

Status

 Sep 27 2009 - Work in progress

Driver

 em28xx

Leadership ISDB-T

lsusb - vendor/product id

 eb1a:2875 eMPIA Technology, Inc.

I2C devicelist hash table

 0x6b800080

Status

 Sep 27 2009 - Work in progress

Driver

 em28xx

Zaggy ISDB-T

lsusb - vendor/product id

 eb1a:2861 eMPIA Technology, Inc.

I2C devicelist hash table

 0x6b800080

Status

 Sep 27 2009 - Work in progress

Driver

 em28xx