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Technical Background Video4linux APIs TV Encyclopedia Analog TV Digital TV PCI interface chipsets used for v4l cards GPIO pins i2c Protocol Radio Data System (RDS) Overview of TV/video on Linux Developer Section 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 Maintaining mercurial trees TODO - main tasks Anatomy of a v4l device Anatomy of a v4l driver Kernel Development Rules for submitting patches Rules for submitting drivers Coding Style Documentation index Master v4l development repository Current git log Applications TV Viewing TV Recording Streaming Text capture (Teletext/Closed Captioning)

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 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) 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 Peripherals for v4l Remote controllers v4l Links

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 femon (dvb)scan {a,s,c,t}zap dvbstream Tools for unattended/headless recording dvbrecord dvbd Hardware solutions 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

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): DVB/ATSC USB boxes sorted by driver DVB at the USB bus Supported DVB cards Peripheral Components and Hardware Modifications Sat antenna DVB-T antenna Dolby Digital receiver Remote Controllers User Modifications to Supported Devices Developer Section DVB API history and future Linux DVB API Version 4 Anatomy of a DVB device Anatomy of a LinuxTV driver File a Bug Report Invitation for Code Review Hints for Refactoring existing DVB drivers The DVB Decoder Challenge DVB Links