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.Dd August 30, 2011 .Dt DTV 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm dtv .Nd interface for digital television .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "dtv* at dtvbus?"
p n dev/dtv/dtvio.h n dev/dtv/dtvio_demux.h n dev/dtv/dtvio_frontend.h .Sh DESCRIPTION The machine-independent .Nm interface provides support for digital television
q Dv DTV . A subset of the Linux Digital Video Broadcasting
q Dv DVB
.Dv APIs
is supported.
In particular,
.Nm
provides the DVB frontend and demodulator
.Dv APIs .
.Sh SUPPORTED DEVICES
The following machine-independent devices are supported:
l -tag -width "auvitek(4) " -offset indent t Xr auvitek 4 Auvitek AU0828-based video capture cards
t Xr emdtv 4 EM28XX-based DTV cards
XXX: Uncomment once the stub-pages are actually installed.
.It Xr coram 4
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250
.It Xr cxdtv 4
Conexant CX2388X-based DTV cards
.El
p
Note that the
.Nm
device drivers are generally only available as kernel modules; see
.Xr module 7
and
.Xr modload 8
for additional details.
Refer to
.Xr dtviic 4
for details about the supported demodulators and tuners.
.Sh FILES
l -tag -width 28n t Pa /dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend0 The frontend device, for controlling the tuner and demodulator hardware.
t Pa /dev/dvb/adapterN/demux0 The demux device, for controlling the hardware filters.
t Pa /dev/dvb/adapterN/dvr0 Digital video recording device.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr auvitek 4 ,
.Xr dtviic 4 ,
.Xr emdtv 4 ,
coram 4 ,
cxdtv 4 ,
.Xr video 9
p
a pkgsrc/multimedia/dvb-apps ,
a pkgsrc/multimedia/mplayer .Rs .%T Linux Media Infrastructure API. .%T Part II. Linux DVB API .%D 2011 .%U https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis-new/userspace-api/dvb/dvbapi.html .Re .Sh HISTORY The .Nm interface first appeared in .Nx 6.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Jared D. McNeill .Aq jmcneill (at] invisible.ca
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