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37 <title>LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API
</title>
40 <year>2009-
2014</year>
41 <holder>LinuxTV Developers
</holder>
45 <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
46 this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
47 Version
1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
48 Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
49 "GNU Free Documentation License"</para>
53 <toc></toc> <!-- autogenerated -->
56 <title>Introduction
</title>
58 <para>This document covers the Linux Kernel to Userspace API's used by
59 video and radio streaming devices, including video cameras,
60 analog and digital TV receiver cards, AM/FM receiver cards,
61 streaming capture and output devices, codec devices and remote
63 <para>It is divided into four parts.
</para>
64 <para>The first part covers radio, video capture and output,
65 cameras, analog TV devices and codecs.
</para>
66 <para>The second part covers the
67 API used for digital TV and Internet reception via one of the
68 several digital tv standards. While it is called as DVB API,
69 in fact it covers several different video standards including
70 DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C and ATSC. The API is currently being updated
71 to document support also for DVB-S2, ISDB-T and ISDB-S.
</para>
72 <para>The third part covers the Remote Controller API.
</para>
73 <para>The fourth part covers the Media Controller API.
</para>
74 <para>For additional information and for the latest development code,
75 see:
<ulink url=
"http://linuxtv.org">http://linuxtv.org
</ulink>.
</para>
76 <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>
79 <part id=
"v4l2spec">&sub-v4l2;
</part>
80 <part id=
"dvbapi">&sub-dvbapi;
</part>
81 <part id=
"remotes">&sub-remote_controllers;
</part>
82 <part id=
"media_common">&sub-media-controller;
</part>
84 <chapter id=
"gen_errors">&sub-gen-errors;
</chapter>