User:CityK: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 02:01, 17 March 2007

This is my sandbox.

Tutorials, Howtos, Usage Info & Guides:
- How to install DVB
- First steps with a DVB card
- Example setups and Use cases by country
- Howto record multiple programs at once
- Post-processing of recorded material
- FAQ

Software and Usage
- Commented software list, including:
- Applications to watch TV
  - Kaffeine
  - Klear
  - Mplayer
  - Xine
  - XdTV
- Full Media Centers
  - VDR
  - MythTV
  - Freevo
  - GeeXboX
- show Videotext/Teletext
  - alevt
- Tools for testing, tuning, streaming
- Tools for unattended/headless recording
  - dvbrecord
  - dvbd

Applications
- TV Viewing
- TV Recording
- Streaming
- Text capture (Teletext/Closed Captioning)

Technical Background
- Analog TV
- Digital TV
  - DVB Standard
- Modulation Schemes used for Analog and Digital TV
- Interface chipsets used for DVB devices
- MPEG2 Standard
- Hard- or Software Decoder?
- i2c Protocol
- DSM-CC ObjectCarousel Protocol
- DiSEqC Protocol

Supported Hardware
- DVB-S devices
- DVB-T devices
- DVB-C devices
- DVB Conditional Access Modules
- ATSC devices
- Devices sorted by Vendor
- Also see these articles (info to be mergered into the appropriate sections above):

Supported Hardware
- Tuners
- Audio Decoders
- Hardware vs software encoders
- v4l card vendors
- How-To's
  - Kworld ATSC-110
- TV cards and drivers
  - Video via PCI
  - Video via PCI Express
    - saa7162 devices (not yet supported)
    - nGene devices (not supported)
  - Video via USB
    - USBVideo Request support for USB Video devices
    - Em2820 (USB Analog only)
    - Em2880 (USB Analog+DVB-T)
    - USBVision devices
    - DiBcom USB devices
    - OmniVision USB devices (OV511, etc)
  - Video via PC104
    - Sensoray devices
- Graphics cards with TV tuner
  - ATI/AMD
  - NVIDIA
- Other devices
  - Radios
  - Webcams
  - Scanners
  - Loopback

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