Difference between revisions of "Technical Background"

Technical Background:

Technical Background:

Systems:

• Analog TV
• Radio Data System (RDS)
• Digital TV (DTV)
  • ATSC Standards
  • DVB Standards
  • DMB-T/H Standard
  • ISDB Standards
• Modulation Schemes used for Analog & DTV
• MPEG-2 Standard
  • DSM-CC Object Carousel Protocol
• DiSEqC Protocols

Chipsets:

Hardware Component Related:

• Sortable List of Chipset Vendors
• Anatomy of V4L-DVB devices
  • Tuners
  • Demodulators
  • A/V Decoders
    • Radio Decoder Chipsets
  • GPIO pins
  • I²C Protocol
  • Hardware or Software Decoder? (MPEG)
  • Hardware vs software encoders (MPEG)
  • Remote Controller chipsets
  • Interface chipsets

Developer Section:

Developer Section:

Repos:

• Git V4L-DVB development repository
• Mercurial V4L-DVB backport repository
• A list of LinuxTV hosted Git development repositories
• A list of LinuxTV hosted Mercurial development repositories
• Current git log
• Maintaining Git trees
• Using a git driver development tree
• Maintaining Mercurial (Hg) trees

Kernel Driver Development:

• Linux kernel development documentation index
• Application Programming Interface (API):
  • Linux Media Infrastructure API
• Drivers:
  • Anatomy of a V4L driver
  • Anatomy of a DVB driver
  • How to add support for a device
  • How to develop drivers for USB based devices
    • General Information Regarding DVB via USB
    • Reverse Engineering USB Webcams
  • Hints for Refactoring Existing Drivers
• Submitting your work:
  • Coding Style
  • Invitation for Code Review
  • How to submit patches
    • Rules for submitting patches
    • Linux Kernel patch submittal checklist
    • Rules for submitting drivers
• Development miscellanea:
  • Bus snooping/sniffing
  • How to extract a firmware
  • The DVB Decoder Challenge
  • TODO - main tasks
  • V4L framework progress
  • Libv4l Progress

Userspace Development:

• V4L2 Userspace Library