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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 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 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 Interface chipsets used for DVB devices ** PCI interface chipsets used for v4l cards MPEG2 Standard Hard- or Software Decoder? Hardware vs software encoders 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)
      • 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

• 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