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26<book id="media_api">
27<bookinfo>
28<title>LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API</title>
29
30<copyright>
Hans Verkuilbda50bc2011-01-16 17:44:17 -030031 <year>2009-2011</year>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8e080c22009-09-13 22:16:04 -030032 <holder>LinuxTV Developers</holder>
33</copyright>
34
35<legalnotice>
36
37<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
38this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
39Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
40Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
41"GNU Free Documentation License"</para>
42</legalnotice>
43
44</bookinfo>
45
46<toc></toc> <!-- autogenerated -->
47
48<preface>
49 <title>Introduction</title>
50
51 <para>This document covers the Linux Kernel to Userspace API's used by
52 video and radio straming devices, including video cameras,
53 analog and digital TV receiver cards, AM/FM receiver cards,
54 streaming capture devices.</para>
55 <para>It is divided into three parts.</para>
56 <para>The first part covers radio, capture,
57 cameras and analog TV devices.</para>
58 <para>The second part covers the
59 API used for digital TV and Internet reception via one of the
60 several digital tv standards. While it is called as DVB API,
61 in fact it covers several different video standards including
62 DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C and ATSC. The API is currently being updated
63 to documment support also for DVB-S2, ISDB-T and ISDB-S.</para>
Mauro Carvalho Chehabfab81252010-07-04 12:23:19 -030064 <para>The third part covers Remote Controller API</para>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8e080c22009-09-13 22:16:04 -030065 <para>For additional information and for the latest development code,
66 see: <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org">http://linuxtv.org</ulink>.</para>
67 <para>For discussing improvements, reporting troubles, sending new drivers, etc, please mail to: <ulink url="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media">Linux Media Mailing List (LMML).</ulink>.</para>
68
69</preface>
70
71<part id="v4l2spec">
72&sub-v4l2;
73</part>
74<part id="dvbapi">
75&sub-dvbapi;
76</part>
77<part id="v4ldvb_common">
78<partinfo>
79<authorgroup>
80<author>
81<firstname>Mauro</firstname>
82<surname>Chehab</surname>
83<othername role="mi">Carvalho</othername>
84<affiliation><address><email>mchehab@redhat.com</email></address></affiliation>
85<contrib>Initial version.</contrib>
86</author>
87</authorgroup>
88<copyright>
Hans Verkuilbda50bc2011-01-16 17:44:17 -030089 <year>2009-2011</year>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8e080c22009-09-13 22:16:04 -030090 <holder>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</holder>
91</copyright>
92
93<revhistory>
94<!-- Put document revisions here, newest first. -->
95<revision>
96<revnumber>1.0.0</revnumber>
97<date>2009-09-06</date>
98<authorinitials>mcc</authorinitials>
99<revremark>Initial revision</revremark>
100</revision>
101</revhistory>
102</partinfo>
103
Mauro Carvalho Chehabfab81252010-07-04 12:23:19 -0300104<title>Remote Controller API</title>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8e080c22009-09-13 22:16:04 -0300105<chapter id="remote_controllers">
106&sub-remote_controllers;
107</chapter>
108</part>
109
110&sub-fdl-appendix;
111
112</book>