| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Linux Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) subsystem |
| 2 | ============================================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | The main development site and CVS repository for these |
| 5 | drivers is http://linuxtv.org/. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The developer mailing list linux-dvb is also hosted there, |
| 8 | see http://linuxtv.org/lists.php. Please check |
| 9 | the archive http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/ |
| 10 | and the Wiki http://linuxtv.org/wiki/ |
| 11 | before asking newbie questions on the list. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | API documentation, utilities and test/example programs |
| 14 | are available as part of the old driver package for Linux 2.4 |
| 15 | (linuxtv-dvb-1.0.x.tar.gz), or from CVS (module DVB). |
| 16 | We plan to split this into separate packages, but it's not |
| 17 | been done yet. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | http://linuxtv.org/downloads/ |
| 20 | |
| 21 | What's inside this directory: |
| 22 | |
| 23 | "cards.txt" |
| 24 | contains a list of supported hardware. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | "contributors.txt" |
| 27 | is the who-is-who of DVB development |
| 28 | |
| 29 | "faq.txt" |
| 30 | contains frequently asked questions and their answers. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | "get_dvb_firmware" |
| 33 | script to download and extract firmware for those devices |
| 34 | that require it. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | "ttusb-dec.txt" |
| 37 | contains detailed informations about the |
| 38 | TT DEC2000/DEC3000 USB DVB hardware. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | "bt8xx.txt" |
| 41 | contains detailed installation instructions for the |
| 42 | various bt8xx based "budget" DVB cards |
| 43 | (Nebula, Pinnacle PCTV, Twinhan DST) |
| 44 | |
| 45 | "README.dibusb" |
| 46 | contains detailed information about adapters |
| 47 | based on DiBcom reference design. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | "udev.txt" |
| 50 | how to get DVB and udev up and running. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | Good luck and have fun! |