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.. _dvb_video:
-################
-DVB Video Device
-################
-The DVB video device controls the MPEG2 video decoder of the DVB
-hardware. It can be accessed through **/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0**. Data
+#######################
+Digital TV Video Device
+#######################
+
+The Digital TV video device controls the MPEG2 video decoder of the Digital
+TV hardware. It can be accessed through **/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0**. Data
types and and ioctl definitions can be accessed by including
**linux/dvb/video.h** in your application.
-Note that the DVB video device only controls decoding of the MPEG video
+Note that the Digital TV video device only controls decoding of the MPEG video
stream, not its presentation on the TV or computer screen. On PCs this
is typically handled by an associated video4linux device, e.g.
**/dev/video**, which allows scaling and defining output windows.
-Some DVB cards don’t have their own MPEG decoder, which results in the
+Some Digital TV cards don’t have their own MPEG decoder, which results in the
omission of the audio and video device as well as the video4linux
device.