DTV(4)

NAME
dtv - interface for digital television

SYNOPSIS
dtv* at dtvbus?

#include <dev/dtv/dtvio.h>
#include <dev/dtv/dtvio_demux.h>
#include <dev/dtv/dtvio_frontend.h>

DESCRIPTION
The machine-independent dtv interface provides support for digital television (DTV). A subset of the Linux Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) APIs is supported. In particular, dtv provides the DVB frontend and demodulator APIs.

SUPPORTED DEVICES
The following machine-independent devices are supported:

auvitek(4)
    Auvitek AU0828-based video capture cards

emdtv(4)
    EM28XX-based DTV cards

Note that the dtv device drivers are generally only available as kernel modules; see module(7) and modload(8) for additional details. Refer to dtviic(4) for details about the supported demodulators and tuners.

FILES

/dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend0
    The frontend device, for controlling the tuner and demodulator hardware.

/dev/dvb/adapterN/demux0
    The demux device, for controlling the hardware filters.

/dev/dvb/adapterN/dvr0
    Digital video recording device.

SEE ALSO
auvitek(4), dtviic(4), emdtv(4), video(9)

pkgsrc/multimedia/dvb-apps, pkgsrc/multimedia/mplayer Linux Media Infrastructure API., Part II. Linux DVB API, 2011, http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/dvbapi.html.

HISTORY
The dtv interface first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS
Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>