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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-03-09 13:20:32 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-15 15:51:23 +0200
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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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@@ -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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~