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Welcome to the video4linux wiki (For DVB wiki, click here)

This wiki is designed to serve as a community focus and the resource of reference for users and developers of the Video4Linux framework. In the short term, the task is to document the operation and quirks of hardware supported by v4l applications, to complement and offload the v4l mailing list -- cf. searchable archives. We are also encouraging developers to turn this site into a repository of knowledge about v4l, helping to ensure that expertise acquired through much hard labor and long dedication won't get lost, but can be passed on to new developers and keep free software thriving. If you are a user looking for help, please try searching the mailing list archives first, before asking a question on the v4l mailing list. You may also be able to get immediate help on the #v4l irc channel on irc.freenode.net -- hopefully someone there will be able to help you! Don't leave your question on the wiki -- ask on the mailing list! The wiki will only be as useful as we make it. Every user of video4linux has something to contribute, and we encourage you to begin right away. Whatever you can contribute will be warmly appreciated, whether it is a set of instructions for how to get a certain card working, a report on the audio and video quality of a working card, suggestions for how to extend an existing driver or write a new one, or an explanation of the internal logic of v4l itself. To keep these instructions free, all contributions to this wiki are automatically licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL. If you wish, you may specify in each case that your contribution is dual-licensed under the MIT License. Please help us keep spam away by signing in before you post. Enjoy! People behind V4L To make a contribution, please begin by familiarizing yourself with the layout of the site, so that your contribution will end up in the right location. As the site grows, it takes increasing discipline to keep it from turning into a tangle. We want to aggregate information about available hardware, v4l experiences, HOWTOs, and technical information about the workings of v4l devices work, and it's up to each of us to do this in a way that makes the information easy to access -- a useful and well-organized resource for everyone interested in video4linux.

Welcome to the linuxtv.org DVB Wiki! (For v4l wiki, click here)

This Wiki is intended to become the ultimate resource regarding all questions about Video, TV and DVB support on Linux, free DVB software and cool projects. Like every other Wiki it relies on the contributions of its users. Also this Wiki can only get as good as you and we mean: YOU!!! make it. Whatever you can contribute will be highly appreciated, no matter if it's a HOWTO, help and explanations how to write a driver, how to install some a driver or whether you can explain how that beast called DVB is working. have fun, enjoy -- The LinuxTV WikiTeam The basic plan is to collect facts about available hardware, linux-dvb experiences, HOWTOs, encyclopedia-like information and explanations about how DVB, MPEG-2 and MHP work, what an EPG is and so on, to make this a place useful for everybody who is doing anything related to analog or digital TV. Save and share knowledge. Tutorials, Howtos, Usage Info & Guides: Overview of TV/video on Linux How to install DVB First steps with a DVB card Example setups and Use cases by country FAQ Software and Usage * Applications Commented software list, including: Applications to watch TV ** TV Viewing ** TV Recording Kaffeine Klear Mplayer Xine XdTV Full Media Centers VDR MythTV Freevo GeeXboX show Videotext/Teletext ** Text capture (Teletext/Closed Captioning) alevt Tools for testing, tuning, streaming ** Streaming femon (dvb)scan {a,s,c,t}zap dvbstream Tools for unattended/headless recording dvbrecord dvbd Howto record multiple programs at once Post-processing of recorded material Hardware and Components Tuners Audio Decoders Interface chipsets used for DVB devices ** PCI interface chipsets used for v4l cards Hard- or Software Decoder? Hardware vs software encoders Analog Devices Video via PCI Video via PCI Express Video via USB Video via PC104 Graphics cards with TV tuner Other devices DVB Devices DVB-S devices DVB-T devices DVB-C devices ATSC devices*** Kworld ATSC-110 Devices sorted by Vendor ** v4l card vendors Also see these articles (info to be mergered into the appropriate sections above): DVB/ATSC USB boxes sorted by driver DVB at the USB bus Em2880 (USB Analog+DVB-T) Supported DVB cards Pre-configured Systems and Set Top Hardware Peripheral Components and Hardware Modifications Sat antenna DVB-T antenna DVB Conditional Access Modules Dolby Digital receiver Remote Controllers ** Remote controllers User Modifications to Supported Devices Technical Background TV Encyclopedia Analog TV ** Analog TV Digital TV DVB Standard Modulation Schemes used for Analog and Digital TV MPEG2 Standard i2c Protocol ** i2c Protocol GPIO pins Radio Data System (RDS) DSM-CC ObjectCarousel Protocol DiSEqC Protocol Developer Section Video4linux APIs**Linux DVB API Version 4 DVB API history and future Anatomy of a v4l device **Anatomy of a DVB device Anatomy of a v4l driver **Anatomy of a LinuxTV driver File a Bug Report ** How to write a good problem report How to add support for a new card How to build from v4l mercurial How to submit patches Invitation for Code Review Hints for Refactoring existing DVB drivers The DVB Decoder Challenge Maintaining mercurial trees TODO - main tasks Kernel Development Rules for submitting patches Rules for submitting drivers Coding Style Documentation index Master v4l development repository Current git log DVB Links v4l Links Analog Devices Video via PCI List survey of cards in use now bttv devices (bt848, bt878) btaudio (bt878) Matrox Meteor II cards (not working) saa713x devices (saa713x) saa7134-alsa saa7146 devices cx88 devices (cx2388x) ivtv devices (cx23415, cx23416) zoran devices (zr36057, zr36067) zoran devices (zr36120, zr36125) 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) 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 DVB Pre-configured Systems and Set Top Hardware Examples of hardware Barebones and bundles Commercial solutions VDR-based STBs MythTV STBs Enigma on the dbox2 Neutrino on the dbox2 Enigma on the Dreambox Streaming clients