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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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Hi everyone, the merger of the V4L and DVB wikis is now underway! Articles within the V4L wiki will progressively be transferred into this wiki. Please see here for the important details.

User Section The Wiki's Indexes Getting Started: Supported Hardware How to install DVB device drivers How to build drivers from Mercurial Testing your DVB device (PCI, USB, ...) Having Trouble? FAQ & Troubleshooting Filing a Bug Report Software Applications and Usage: Example setups and Use cases by country Applications to watch TV Full Media Centers Applications to show Videotext/Teletext Tools for testing, tuning, streaming Tools for unattended/headless recording Radio Listening Tutorials, Howtos, Usage Info & Guides: Howto record multiple programs at once Post-processing of recorded material Testing reception quality Further DVB Links Further V4L Links The Wiki - How Can I Help? Everything you need to know about editing wiki pages but were afraid to ask A list of things that need to be tackled

Technical Background Systems: Analog TV Radio Data System (RDS) Digital TV (DTV) DVB Standards ATSC Standards Modulation Schemes used for Analog & DTV MPEG-2 Standard DSM-CC Object Carousel Protocol DiSEqC Protocol Hardware Related: GPIO pins Anatomy of a DVB device Interface chipsets used for DVB devices Hardware or Software Decoder? Hardware vs software encoders I²C Protocol Hardware vs software encoders General Information Regarding DVB via USB Developer Section Repos: Master V4L-DVB development repository v4l-dvb experimental repository Current git log Maintaining Mercurial (Hg) trees Kernel Driver Development: Application Programming Interface (API): DVB API history and future Linux DVB API Version 4 Multiproto (API v5.0 candidate) S2API (API v5.0 selected) Video4Linux APIs Drivers:' Anatomy of a V4L driver Anatomy of a LinuxTV driver Hints for Refactoring existing DVB drivers Coding Style Submitting your work: Invitation for Code Review How to submit patches Rules for submitting patches Linux Kernel patch submittal checklist Rules for submitting drivers Next subsection: The DVB Decoder Challenge How to extract a firmware How to develop drivers for USB based devices Reverse Engineering USB Webcams Userspace Development: V4L2 Userspace Library

Hardware Information: Sortable List of Device Vendors Digital Devices (DVB): ATSC Devices DMB-T/H Devices DVB-C Devices DVB-S Devices DVB-S2 Devices 8-PSK Turbo Coded Devices DVB-T Devices ISDB-T DVB Devices DVB Conditional Access Modules User Modifications to Supported Devices Analogue Devices (V4L): Graphics cards with TV Tuner and/or Capture facilities: ATI/AMD based combo cards NVIDIA based combo cards Video via PCI: Matrox Meteor II cards (not working) zoran devices (zr36057, zr36067) zoran devices (zr36120, zr36125) Video via USB: Hauppauge PVRUSB2 (not to be confused with the wintv-usb2) USBVision devices Other devices: Radio Webcams Peripheral Components: DVB-T antenna Switches, attenuators, and amplifiers Remote Controllers Sat antenna DiSEqC related hardware Dolby Digital receiver Pre-configured DVB Systems and Set Top 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