Ralph
Metzler
J. K.

    rjkm@metzlerbros.de

Marcus
Metzler
O. C.

    rjkm@metzlerbros.de

Mauro
Carvalho
Chehab

    m.chehab@samsung.com

Ported document to Docbook XML.
2002
2003
Convergence GmbH
2009-2015
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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 DVB API.
2.0.4
2011-05-06
mcc
Add more information about DVB APIv5, better describing the frontend GET/SET props ioctl's.
2.0.3
2010-07-03
mcc
Add some frontend capabilities flags, present on kernel, but missing at the specs.
2.0.2
2009-10-25
mcc
documents FE_SET_FRONTEND_TUNE_MODE and FE_DISHETWORK_SEND_LEGACY_CMD ioctls.
2.0.1
2009-09-16
mcc
Added ISDB-T test originally written by Patrick Boettcher
2.0.0
2009-09-06
mcc
Conversion from LaTex to DocBook XML. The contents is the same as the original LaTex version.
1.0.0
2003-07-24
rjkm
Initial revision on LaTEX.

# LINUX DVB API

Version 5.10
&sub-intro;
&sub-frontend;
&sub-demux;
&sub-ca;
&sub-net;

# DVB Deprecated APIs

The APIs described here are kept only for historical reasons. There's just one driver for a very legacy hardware that uses this API. No modern drivers should use it. Instead, audio and video should be using the V4L2 and ALSA APIs, and the pipelines should be set using the Media Controller API

&sub-video;
&sub-audio;
&sub-kdapi;
&sub-examples;

# DVB Audio Header File

&sub-audio-h;

# DVB Conditional Access Header File

&sub-ca-h;

# DVB Demux Header File

&sub-dmx-h;

# DVB Frontend Header File

&sub-frontend-h;

# DVB Network Header File

&sub-net-h;

# DVB Video Header File

&sub-video-h;