| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
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| Digital TV (DVB) devices |
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| Digital TV devices are implemented by several different drivers: |
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| - A bridge driver that is responsible to talk with the bus where the other |
| devices are connected (PCI, USB, SPI), bind to the other drivers and |
| implement the digital demux logic (either in software or in hardware); |
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| - Frontend drivers that are usually implemented as two separate drivers: |
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| - A tuner driver that implements the logic which commands the part of |
| the hardware responsible for tuning into a digital TV transponder or |
| physical channel. The output of a tuner is usually a baseband or |
| Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal; |
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| - A demodulator driver (a.k.a "demod") that implements the logic which |
| commands the digital TV decoding hardware. The output of a demod is |
| a digital stream, with multiple audio, video and data channels typically |
| multiplexed using MPEG Transport Stream [#f1]_. |
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| On most hardware, the frontend drivers talk with the bridge driver using an |
| I2C bus. |
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| .. [#f1] Some standards use TCP/IP for multiplexing data, like DVB-H (an |
| abandoned standard, not used anymore) and ATSC version 3.0 current |
| proposals. Currently, the DVB subsystem doesn't implement those standards. |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
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| dtv-common |
| dtv-frontend |
| dtv-demux |
| dtv-ca |
| dtv-net |
