1.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
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3.. include:: <isonum.txt>
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5.. _dvbapi:
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7########################
8Part II - Digital TV API
9########################
10
11.. note::
12
13   This API is also known as Linux **DVB API**.
14
15   It it was originally written to support the European digital TV
16   standard (DVB), and later extended to support all digital TV standards.
17
18   In order to avoid confusion, within this document, it was opted to refer to
19   it, and to associated hardware as **Digital TV**.
20
21   The word **DVB** is reserved to be used for:
22
23     - the Digital TV API version
24       (e. g. DVB API version 3 or DVB API version 5);
25     - digital TV data types (enums, structs, defines, etc);
26     - digital TV device nodes (``/dev/dvb/...``);
27     - the European DVB standard.
28
29**Version 5.10**
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31.. only:: html
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33   .. class:: toc-title
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35        Table of Contents
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37.. toctree::
38    :maxdepth: 5
39    :numbered:
40
41    intro
42    frontend
43    demux
44    ca
45    net
46    legacy_dvb_apis
47    examples
48    headers
49
50
51**********************
52Revision and Copyright
53**********************
54
55Authors:
56
57- J. K. Metzler, Ralph <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
58
59 - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
60
61- O. C. Metzler, Marcus <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
62
63 - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
64
65- Carvalho Chehab, Mauro <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
66
67 - Ported document to Docbook XML, addition of DVBv5 API, documentation gaps fix.
68
69**Copyright** |copy| 2002-2003 : Convergence GmbH
70
71**Copyright** |copy| 2009-2017 : Mauro Carvalho Chehab
72
73****************
74Revision History
75****************
76
77:revision: 2.2.0 / 2017-09-01 (*mcc*)
78
79Most gaps between the uAPI document and the Kernel implementation
80got fixed for the non-legacy API.
81
82:revision: 2.1.0 / 2015-05-29 (*mcc*)
83
84DocBook improvements and cleanups, in order to document the system calls
85on a more standard way and provide more description about the current
86Digital TV API.
87
88:revision: 2.0.4 / 2011-05-06 (*mcc*)
89
90Add more information about DVBv5 API, better describing the frontend
91GET/SET props ioctl's.
92
93
94:revision: 2.0.3 / 2010-07-03 (*mcc*)
95
96Add some frontend capabilities flags, present on kernel, but missing at
97the specs.
98
99
100:revision: 2.0.2 / 2009-10-25 (*mcc*)
101
102documents FE_SET_FRONTEND_TUNE_MODE and
103FE_DISHETWORK_SEND_LEGACY_CMD ioctls.
104
105
106:revision: 2.0.1 / 2009-09-16 (*mcc*)
107
108Added ISDB-T test originally written by Patrick Boettcher
109
110
111:revision: 2.0.0 / 2009-09-06 (*mcc*)
112
113Conversion from LaTex to DocBook XML. The contents is the same as the
114original LaTex version.
115
116
117:revision: 1.0.0 / 2003-07-24 (*rjkm*)
118
119Initial revision on LaTEX.
120