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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-03-09 13:20:32 +0100 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-15 15:51:23 +0200 |
commit | c4b89166d291959cf9a2e8da48f7bfa65b7d56d4 (patch) | |
tree | ac1e80520f796ee63b8322e0cfb7053a6eec23c0 /Documentation/admin-guide/media/avermedia.rst | |
parent | b533cad6fd59c0fb083c1e0066ee7713366bff7e (diff) |
media: docs: split avermedia.rst contents on two files
Part of this document has nothing to do with the Avermedia
driver. It is generic to the entire subsystem. So, split it
on a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/avermedia.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/avermedia.rst index bf35fd88e164..349f696f7f01 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/avermedia.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/avermedia.rst @@ -13,69 +13,6 @@ February 14th 2006 There's a section there specific for Avermedia boards at: https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/AVerMedia - -Assumptions and Introduction -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -It is assumed that the reader understands the basic structure -of the Linux Kernel DVB drivers and the general principles of -Digital TV. - -One significant difference between Digital TV and Analogue TV -that the unwary (like myself) should consider is that, -although the component structure of budget DVB-T cards are -substantially similar to Analogue TV cards, they function in -substantially different ways. - -The purpose of an Analogue TV is to receive and display an -Analogue Television signal. An Analogue TV signal (otherwise -known as composite video) is an analogue encoding of a -sequence of image frames (25 per second) rasterised using an -interlacing technique. Interlacing takes two fields to -represent one frame. Computers today are at their best when -dealing with digital signals, not analogue signals and a -composite video signal is about as far removed from a digital -data stream as you can get. Therefore, an Analogue TV card for -a PC has the following purpose: - -* Tune the receiver to receive a broadcast signal -* demodulate the broadcast signal -* demultiplex the analogue video signal and analogue audio - signal. **NOTE:** some countries employ a digital audio signal - embedded within the modulated composite analogue signal - - NICAM.) -* digitize the analogue video signal and make the resulting - datastream available to the data bus. - -The digital datastream from an Analogue TV card is generated -by circuitry on the card and is often presented uncompressed. -For a PAL TV signal encoded at a resolution of 768x576 24-bit -color pixels over 25 frames per second - a fair amount of data -is generated and must be processed by the PC before it can be -displayed on the video monitor screen. Some Analogue TV cards -for PCs have onboard MPEG2 encoders which permit the raw -digital data stream to be presented to the PC in an encoded -and compressed form - similar to the form that is used in -Digital TV. - -The purpose of a simple budget digital TV card (DVB-T,C or S) -is to simply: - -* Tune the received to receive a broadcast signal. -* Extract the encoded digital datastream from the broadcast - signal. -* Make the encoded digital datastream (MPEG2) available to - the data bus. - -The significant difference between the two is that the tuner -on the analogue TV card spits out an Analogue signal, whereas -the tuner on the digital TV card spits out a compressed -encoded digital datastream. As the signal is already -digitised, it is trivial to pass this datastream to the PC -databus with minimal additional processing and then extract -the digital video and audio datastreams passing them to the -appropriate software or hardware for decoding and viewing. - The Avermedia DVB-T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -102,33 +39,6 @@ MPEG2 hardware decoding card or chipset. Getting the card going ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -In order to fire up the card, it is necessary to load a number -of modules from the DVB driver set. Prior to this it will have -been necessary to download these drivers from the linuxtv CVS -server and compile them successfully. - -Depending on the card's feature set, the Device Driver API for -DVB under Linux will expose some of the following device files -in the /dev tree: - -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/osd0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 - -The primary device nodes that we are interested in (at this -stage) for the Avermedia DVB-T are: - -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 -* /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 - -The dvr0 device node is used to read the MPEG2 Data Stream and -the frontend0 node is used to tune the frontend tuner module. - At this stage, it has not been able to ascertain the functionality of the remaining device nodes in respect of the Avermedia DVBT. However, full functionality in respect of @@ -156,95 +66,6 @@ Please use the command "get_dvb_firmware sp887x" to download it. Then copy it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware or /lib/firmware/ (depending on configuration of firmware hotplug). -Receiving DVB-T in Australia -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -I have no experience of DVB-T in other countries other than -Australia, so I will attempt to explain how it works here in -Melbourne and how this affects the configuration of the DVB-T -card. - -The Digital Broadcasting Australia website has a Reception -locatortool which provides information on transponder channels -and frequencies. My local transmitter happens to be Mount -Dandenong. - -The frequencies broadcast by Mount Dandenong are: - -Table 1. Transponder Frequencies Mount Dandenong, Vic, Aus. - -=========== ======= =========== -Broadcaster Channel Frequency -=========== ======= =========== -ABC VHF 12 226.5 MHz -TEN VHF 11 219.5 MHz -NINE VHF 8 191.625 MHz -SEVEN VHF 6 177.5 MHz -SBS UHF 29 536.5 MHz -=========== ======= =========== - -The Scan utility has a set of compiled-in defaults for various -countries and regions, but if they do not suit, or if you have -a pre-compiled scan binary, you can specify a data file on the -command line which contains the transponder frequencies. Here -is a sample file for the above channel transponders: - -:: - - # Data file for DVB scan program - # - # C Frequency SymbolRate FEC QAM - # S Frequency Polarisation SymbolRate FEC - # T Frequency Bandwidth FEC FEC2 QAM Mode Guard Hier - T 226500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE - T 191625000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE - T 219500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE - T 177500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE - T 536500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE - -The defaults for the transponder frequency and other -modulation parameters were obtained from www.dba.org.au. - -When Scan runs, it will output channels.conf information for -any channel's transponders which the card's frontend can lock -onto. (i.e. any whose signal is strong enough at your -antenna). - -Here's my channels.conf file for anyone who's interested: - -:: - - ABC HDTV:226500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:2307:0:560 - ABC TV Melbourne:226500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:561 - ABC TV 2:226500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:562 - ABC TV 3:226500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:563 - ABC TV 4:226500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:564 - ABC DiG Radio:226500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:2311:566 - TEN Digital:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1585 - TEN Digital 1:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1586 - TEN Digital 2:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1587 - TEN Digital 3:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1588 - TEN Digital:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1589 - TEN Digital 4:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1590 - TEN Digital:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1591 - TEN HD:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:514:0:1592 - TEN Digital:219500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:1593 - Nine Digital:191625000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:513:660:1072 - Nine Digital HD:191625000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:0:1073 - Nine Guide:191625000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:514:670:1074 - 7 Digital:177500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:769:770:1328 - 7 Digital 1:177500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:769:770:1329 - 7 Digital 2:177500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:769:770:1330 - 7 Digital 3:177500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:769:770:1331 - 7 HD Digital:177500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:833:834:1332 - 7 Program Guide:177500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:865:866:1334 - SBS HD:536500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:102:103:784 - SBS DIGITAL 1:536500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:161:81:785 - SBS DIGITAL 2:536500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:162:83:786 - SBS EPG:536500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:163:85:787 - SBS RADIO 1:536500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:201:798 - SBS RADIO 2:536500000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:202:799 - Known Limitations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |