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When we wrote the media controller's section, we re-used the V4L, just because we were lazy to create a brand new DocBook. Yet, it is a little ackward to have it mixed with V4L. So, move it to its own directory, in order to have it better organized. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
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##############################
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LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API
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##############################
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**Copyright** |copy| 2009-2016 : LinuxTV Developers
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
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any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of
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the license is included in the chapter entitled "GNU Free Documentation
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License".
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============
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Introduction
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============
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This document covers the Linux Kernel to Userspace API's used by video
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and radio streaming devices, including video cameras, analog and digital
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TV receiver cards, AM/FM receiver cards, Software Defined Radio (SDR),
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streaming capture and output devices, codec devices and remote controllers.
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A typical media device hardware is shown at
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:ref:`typical_media_device`.
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.. _typical_media_device:
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.. figure:: media_api_files/typical_media_device.*
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:alt: typical_media_device.svg
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:align: center
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Typical Media Device
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The media infrastructure API was designed to control such devices. It is
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divided into four parts.
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The :Ref:`first part <v4l2spec>` covers radio, video capture and output,
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cameras, analog TV devices and codecs.
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The :Ref:`second part <dvbapi>` covers the API used for digital TV and
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Internet reception via one of the several digital tv standards. While it
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is called as DVB API, in fact it covers several different video
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standards including DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, ATSC, ISDB-T, ISDB-S,
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DTMB, etc. The complete list of supported standards can be found at
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:ref:`fe-delivery-system-t`.
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The :Ref:`third part <remote_controllers>` covers the Remote Controller API.
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The :Ref:`fourth part <media_controller>` covers the Media Controller API.
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It should also be noted that a media device may also have audio
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components, like mixers, PCM capture, PCM playback, etc, which are
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controlled via ALSA API.
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For additional information and for the latest development code, see:
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`https://linuxtv.org <https://linuxtv.org>`__.
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For discussing improvements, reporting troubles, sending new drivers,
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etc, please mail to:
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`Linux Media Mailing List (LMML). <http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media>`__.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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media/v4l/v4l2
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media/dvb/dvbapi
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media/rc/remote_controllers
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media/mediactl/media-controller
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media/v4l/gen-errors
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media/v4l/fdl-appendix
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.. only:: html
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Retrieval
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=========
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* :ref:`genindex`
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