.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this .. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, .. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software .. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts .. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at .. Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst. .. .. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections .. include:: .. _dvbapi: ######################## Part II - Digital TV API ######################## .. note:: This API is also known as Linux **DVB API**. It it was originally written to support the European digital TV standard (DVB), and later extended to support all digital TV standards. In order to avoid confusion, within this document, it was opted to refer to it, and to associated hardware as **Digital TV**. The word **DVB** is reserved to be used for: - the Digital TV API version (e. g. DVB API version 3 or DVB API version 5); - digital TV data types (enums, structs, defines, etc); - digital TV device nodes (``/dev/dvb/...``); - the European DVB standard. **Version 5.10** .. only:: html .. class:: toc-title Table of Contents .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 5 :numbered: intro frontend demux ca net legacy_dvb_apis examples headers ********************** Revision and Copyright ********************** Authors: - J. K. Metzler, Ralph - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation. - O. C. Metzler, Marcus - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation. - Carvalho Chehab, Mauro - Ported document to Docbook XML, addition of DVBv5 API, documentation gaps fix. **Copyright** |copy| 2002-2003 : Convergence GmbH **Copyright** |copy| 2009-2017 : Mauro Carvalho Chehab **************** Revision History **************** :revision: 2.2.0 / 2017-09-01 (*mcc*) Most gaps between the uAPI document and the Kernel implementation got fixed for the non-legacy API. :revision: 2.1.0 / 2015-05-29 (*mcc*) DocBook improvements and cleanups, in order to document the system calls on a more standard way and provide more description about the current Digital TV API. :revision: 2.0.4 / 2011-05-06 (*mcc*) Add more information about DVBv5 API, better describing the frontend GET/SET props ioctl's. :revision: 2.0.3 / 2010-07-03 (*mcc*) Add some frontend capabilities flags, present on kernel, but missing at the specs. :revision: 2.0.2 / 2009-10-25 (*mcc*) documents FE_SET_FRONTEND_TUNE_MODE and FE_DISHETWORK_SEND_LEGACY_CMD ioctls. :revision: 2.0.1 / 2009-09-16 (*mcc*) Added ISDB-T test originally written by Patrick Boettcher :revision: 2.0.0 / 2009-09-06 (*mcc*) Conversion from LaTex to DocBook XML. The contents is the same as the original LaTex version. :revision: 1.0.0 / 2003-07-24 (*rjkm*) Initial revision on LaTEX.