1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later
2 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
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7 Part II - Digital TV API
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12 This API is also known as Linux **DVB API**.
14 It it was originally written to support the European digital TV
15 standard (DVB), and later extended to support all digital TV standards.
17 In order to avoid confusion, within this document, it was opted to refer to
18 it, and to associated hardware as **Digital TV**.
20 The word **DVB** is reserved to be used for:
22 - the Digital TV API version
23 (e. g. DVB API version 3 or DVB API version 5);
24 - digital TV data types (enums, structs, defines, etc);
25 - digital TV device nodes (``/dev/dvb/...``);
26 - the European DVB standard.
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51 Revision and Copyright
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56 - J. K. Metzler, Ralph <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
58 - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
60 - O. C. Metzler, Marcus <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
62 - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
64 - Carvalho Chehab, Mauro <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
66 - Ported document to Docbook XML, addition of DVBv5 API, documentation gaps fix.
68 **Copyright** |copy| 2002-2003 : Convergence GmbH
70 **Copyright** |copy| 2009-2017 : Mauro Carvalho Chehab
76 :revision: 2.2.0 / 2017-09-01 (*mcc*)
78 Most gaps between the uAPI document and the Kernel implementation
79 got fixed for the non-legacy API.
81 :revision: 2.1.0 / 2015-05-29 (*mcc*)
83 DocBook improvements and cleanups, in order to document the system calls
84 on a more standard way and provide more description about the current
87 :revision: 2.0.4 / 2011-05-06 (*mcc*)
89 Add more information about DVBv5 API, better describing the frontend
90 GET/SET props ioctl's.
93 :revision: 2.0.3 / 2010-07-03 (*mcc*)
95 Add some frontend capabilities flags, present on kernel, but missing at
99 :revision: 2.0.2 / 2009-10-25 (*mcc*)
101 documents FE_SET_FRONTEND_TUNE_MODE and
102 FE_DISHETWORK_SEND_LEGACY_CMD ioctls.
105 :revision: 2.0.1 / 2009-09-16 (*mcc*)
107 Added ISDB-T test originally written by Patrick Boettcher
110 :revision: 2.0.0 / 2009-09-06 (*mcc*)
112 Conversion from LaTex to DocBook XML. The contents is the same as the
113 original LaTex version.
116 :revision: 1.0.0 / 2003-07-24 (*rjkm*)
118 Initial revision on LaTEX.