<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>Introduction</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API" /><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API" /><link rel="next" href="pt01.html" title="Part I. Video for Linux Two API Specification" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pt01.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="preface" title="Introduction"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="id2566160"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p>This document covers the Linux Kernel to Userspace API's used by video and radio straming devices, including video cameras, analog and digital TV receiver cards, AM/FM receiver cards, streaming capture devices.</p><p>It is divided into three parts.</p><p>The first part covers radio, capture, cameras and analog TV devices.</p><p>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, DVB-S, DVB-C and ATSC. The API is currently being updated to documment support also for DVB-S2, ISDB-T and ISDB-S.</p><p>The third part covers other API's used by all media infrastructure devices</p><p>For additional information and for the latest development code, see: <a class="ulink" href="http://linuxtv.org" target="_top">http://linuxtv.org</a>.</p><p>For discussing improvements, reporting troubles, sending new drivers, etc, please mail to: <a class="ulink" href="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media" target="_top">Linux Media Mailing List (LMML).</a>.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pt01.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Part I. Video for Linux Two API Specification</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
