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This is my sandbox. Being a sandbox, everything you see here is a work in progress.

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Getting Started: What is V4L or DVB? Supported Hardware How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers Driver List Other Sources of Info

Software Applications and Usage: TV Related Software ... Applications to watch & record TV, and much, much more Radio Listening Software Webcam Software

TV Related Software SubPage:

It would seem that, instead of re-inventing the wheel, the existing TV Related Software page is an ideal candidate to be reworked as the TV Software SubPage

TV related items/issues that should be addressed are:

• scanning
• tuning/zapping
• watching/recording
• teletex/CC

• streaming

distinguish between tuner/tuning/to tune/receiver ... in contemporary dialogue/common language: the terms "tuner" and "receiver" are often used interchangeably ... but its more appropriate to call it a receiver, with the tuner being part of the receiver

tuning In electronics, tuning refers to a process in which, first, a specific RF signal is acquired and, second, is subsequently acted upon such that any underlying content (information/data) may be extracted.

One may "tune" to a specific frequency and find that there is no underlining content to be found -- in the context of radio or TV signal reception, this would be characteristic of static or white noise.

in which case the RF carrier signal list of known frequencies or obtained via a frequency scan

TV Related Software:

Getting Started: Examples of User TV Device Hardware and Software Configurations: Example setups Mailing List survey of devices in use Conditional Access Module Usage Examples (sorted by country) User Modifications to Supported Devices Still Having Trouble?: FAQ & Troubleshooting V4L Test Suite Filing a Bug Report

Utility Suites and Standalone Tools

Analogue Utility Suites or Standalone Tools v4l2-apps v4l2ucp xawtv

DVB Utility Suites and Standalone Tools LinuxTV dvb-apps DVB tools dvbsak ZapDvb dvbd JustDvb-It

Tools for performing frequency scans

• Frequency Scanning

Analogue Tools for performing frequency scans scantv (part of xawtv package)

DVB Tools for performing frequency scans ... also see Testing your DVB device (PCI, USB, ...) ... scan & zap stuff scan dvbscan/scandvb/atscscan w_scan scan-s2 scte65scan [1] [2] [3]

Tools for tuning

• Tuning

Analogue Tools for tuning

DVB Tools for tuning ... also see Testing your DVB device (PCI, USB, ...) ... scan & zap stuff {a,s,c,t}zap dvbsnoop szap-s2

Tools for signal strength

• Testing reception quality

Analogue Tools for signal strength

DVB Tools for signal strength femon

Standalone Software to Watch & Record TV

Standalone Software to Watch Analogue TV fftv [4] Gnometv [5] Gv4l [6] kdetv (also formerly known as QtVision, the rewrite of the former KWinTV) LinTV MPlayer SMPlayer tvtime [7] TV-Viewer (for Hardware MPEG2 Encoder cards) xawtv MoTV XdTV Zapping [8] - a TV viewer for the Gnome desktop. ... also see V4L TV Viewing Analogue capturing V4L capturing ... also see Transcode Streamer DVR [9] WebVCR+ [10] Analogue Frame Grabbing Utilities http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/framegrabbers.html VideoDog [11] [12]

Standalone Software to Watch Digital TV Antenna DTV gdvb Kaffeine KaxTV Klear Me TV MPlayer SMPlayer VLC media player xawtv ... version 4 only for DVB XdTV Xine gxine DVB Tools for unattended/headless recording dvbsched (in dvbd) dvbrecord (in dvbsak) atscap DvbCronRecordingPlugin for Trac Misc Tutorials, Howtos, Usage Info & Guides: Howto record multiple programs at once

Media Player Software

Media Center Software In addition to offline playback of captured & downloaded media material, many will feature live TV viewing and capturing facilities Elisa [13] Entertainer Project [14] Freevo GeeXboX Home Theater System showtime (OpenGL-based media player) tvheadend (TV streaming server) LinuxMCE [15] Linux media center - A forked project from pluto Morphine.TV [16] My Media System [17] MythTV Mini DVB Linux ?? oxine [18] pluto Rage (see the Monday, 27 March 2006 entry) SageTV [19] VDR - VDR is one of the most popular TV applications. It features watching TV, recording storage on disk, EPG, Dolby Digital, playback, multi language and much more. VDR, although originally written for FF cards, works also with budget cards, if one installs the VDR Software Decoder Plugin. XBMC [20] Yahdr ...

Media Center Distributions Complete operating systems tailored for easy installation of everything required to have a media centre. iMedia MythTV Linux [21] Knoppmyth LinVDR [22] -- this was a Linux distro based around VDR. Now ancient history MiniMyth [23] Mythbuntu MythDora ... Standalone Media Players i.e. for offline playback of captured materials Kaffeine KMPlayer MPlayer SMPlayer [24] Totem VLC media player Xine ...

Network and Streaming Tools

• Streaming

Analogue TV Streaming Utilities Streaming-V4L GStreamer

Network Tools for DVB Streams dvbshout dvbsnoop dvbstream DVBStreamer dvbyell getstream Me TV mumudvb TVheadend [25] Streaming Software for Digital TV dvbice VLC media player

Tools to Show Videotext/Teletext/Interactive Content/Closed Captioning

• Text capture

Analogue TV Tools to Show Videotext/Teletext/Interactive Content/Closed Captioning

DVB Tools to Show Videotext/Teletext/Interactive Content/Closed Captioning alevt RedButton

Electronic Program Guide / EIT tools

Analogue TV Program Guide Tools

DVB Program Guide Tools atsc_epg - included within the LinuxTV dvb-apps tv_grab_dvb dvbsnoop DVBStreamer LoadEPG [26] MediaHighWay EPG, mhwepg [27] [28] tv_grab_dvb_plus ( was tvgrabeit ) [29] XMLTV

Tools for Editing Captured TV content

• Avidemux2
• dvbcut
• ProjectX
• MEncoder

Misc Tutorials, Howtos, Usage Info & Guides:

• Post-processing of recorded material

....

Just toying

Would like to try to setup a table for the chipsets using templates such that, with using logic to define relevant fields, we have all the data contained in one spot (I guess much like Henrik was doing with the DVB-T USB stuff), but can then parse the info for display in relevant articles, such that there isn't duplication. Present duplication example:

• USB interface chipsets
• Demodulator

A Sortable List of Chipsets

Vendor	Chipset	Tuner	Analog Demodulator	Digital Demodulator	Standard	Modulation Schemes	A/V decoder	MPEG encoder	MPEG decoder	Interface chipset	Bridge Type	DVB support	Linux Support	Associated Kernel Modules	Firmware	Comments
Afatech	AF9005	✘ No	✘ No	✔ Yes	DVB-T	COFDM	✘ No	✘ No	✘ No	✔ Yes	USB	✔ Yes	✔ Yes	?	✔ Yes	A combo USB bridge & demod IC

Misc Info & ideas for me:

Timestamp

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Colours

• Web colours
• v4l --> style="background-color:#006600;
• DVB --> style="background-color:#6289AB;

Tables

• table formating
• Table_markup

style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;"
style="color:#e76700;"
style="background-color:# ;"

Icons wanted:

• need to find or create a chain link icon for "links"
• * terrestrial broadcast tower
• sat dish
• * pcmcia
• pci
• pcie
• firewire

Special Links

• Works: Archived
• Doesn't work:
  Note: Archived
  ... stupid wiki.
• also see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Plainlinks

Clickable Icons or Images using templates

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageLink
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Icon <--- ***
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Click (depreciated)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Click-Inline