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<book id="media_api" lang="en">
<bookinfo>
	<title>LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API</title>

	<copyright>
		<year>2009-2014</year>
		<holder>LinuxTV Developers</holder>
	</copyright>

	<legalnotice>
		<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
		this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
		Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
		Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
		"GNU Free Documentation License"</para>
	</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>

<toc></toc> <!-- autogenerated -->

<preface>
	<title>Introduction</title>

	<para>This document covers the Linux Kernel to Userspace API's used by
		video and radio streaming devices, including video cameras,
		analog and digital TV receiver cards, AM/FM receiver cards,
		streaming capture and output devices, codec devices and remote
		controllers.</para>
	<para>A typical media device hardware is shown at
	<xref linkend="typical_media_device" />.</para>
	<figure id="typical_media_device">
	    <title>Typical Media Device</title>
	    <mediaobject>
		<imageobject>
		    <imagedata fileref="typical_media_device.svg" format="SVG" />
		</imageobject>
		<textobject>
		    <phrase>Typical Media Device Block Diagram</phrase>
		</textobject>
	    </mediaobject>
	</figure>
	<para>The media infrastructure API was designed to control such
	    devices. It is divided into four parts.</para>
	<para>The first part covers radio, video capture and output,
		cameras, analog TV devices and codecs.</para>
	<para>The second part covers the
		API used for digital TV and Internet reception via one of the
		several digital tv standards. While it is called as DVB API,
		in fact it covers several different video standards including
		DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, ATSC, ISDB-T, ISDB-S,etc. The complete
		list of supported standards can be found at
		<xref linkend="fe-delivery-system-t" />.</para>
	<para>The third part covers the Remote Controller API.</para>
	<para>The fourth part covers the Media Controller API.</para>
	<para>It should also be noticed that a media device may also have audio
	      components, like mixers, PCM capture, PCM playback, etc, with
	      are controlled via ALSA API.</para>
	<para>For additional information and for the latest development code,
		see: <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org">http://linuxtv.org</ulink>.</para>
	<para>For discussing improvements, reporting troubles, sending new drivers, etc, please mail to: <ulink url="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media">Linux Media Mailing List (LMML).</ulink>.</para>
</preface>

<part id="v4l2spec">
&sub-v4l2;
</part>
<part id="dvbapi">
&sub-dvbapi;
</part>
<part id="remotes">
&sub-remote_controllers;
</part>
<part id="media_common">
&sub-media-controller;
</part>

<chapter id="gen_errors">
&sub-gen-errors;
</chapter>

&sub-fdl-appendix;

</book>