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Commit 82ff896c authored by Patrick Boettcher's avatar Patrick Boettcher Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] dvb: usb doc update



o removed device listing (they are all in the linuxtv wiki now)
o misc updates

Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 97432808
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@@ -13,14 +13,17 @@ different way: With the help of a dvb-usb-framework.
The framework provides generic functions (mostly kernel API calls), such as:

- Transport Stream URB handling in conjunction with dvb-demux-feed-control
  (bulk and isoc (TODO) are supported)
  (bulk and isoc are supported)
- registering the device for the DVB-API
- registering an I2C-adapter if applicable
- remote-control/input-device handling
- firmware requesting and loading (currently just for the Cypress USB
  controller)
  controllers)
- other functions/methods which can be shared by several drivers (such as
  functions for bulk-control-commands)
- TODO: a I2C-chunker. It creates device-specific chunks of register-accesses
  depending on length of a register and the number of values that can be
  multi-written and multi-read.

The source code of the particular DVB USB devices does just the communication
with the device via the bus. The connection between the DVB-API-functionality
@@ -36,93 +39,17 @@ the dvb-usb-lib.
TODO: dynamic enabling and disabling of the pid-filter in regard to number of
feeds requested.

Supported devices USB1.1
Supported devices
========================

Produced and reselled by Twinhan:
---------------------------------
- TwinhanDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041)
	http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_3.asp
See the LinuxTV DVB Wiki at www.linuxtv.org for a complete list of
cards/drivers/firmwares:

- TwinhanDTV Magic Box (VP7041e)
	http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_4.asp

- HAMA DVB-T USB device
	http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*110620/action*2598

- CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) (2)
	http://www.2cts.tv/ctsportable/

- Unknown USB DVB-T device with vendor ID Hyper-Paltek


Produced and reselled by KWorld:
--------------------------------
- KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV DVB-T USB
	http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/product/DVBT-USB/DVBT-USB.html

- JetWay DTV DVB-T USB
	http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/lcd-tv/DVT-USB/dtv-usb.htm

- ADSTech Instant TV DVB-T USB
	http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-333/intro/PTV-333_intro.asp?pid=PTV-333


Others:
-------
- Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135, AN2235, AN2235 with Panasonic Tuner)
	http://82.161.246.249/products-tvbox.html

- Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 - DVB-T USB (2)
	http://www.comprousa.com/products/vmu2000.htm

- Grandtec USB DVB-T
	http://www.grand.com.tw/

- AVerMedia AverTV DVBT USB
	http://www.avermedia.com/

- DiBcom USB DVB-T reference device (non-public)


Supported devices USB2.0-only
=============================
- Twinhan MagicBox II
	http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_7.asp

- TwinhanDTV Alpha
	http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_8.asp

- DigitalNow TinyUSB 2 DVB-t Receiver
	http://www.digitalnow.com.au/DigitalNow%20tinyUSB2%20Specifications.html

- Hanftek UMT-010
	http://www.globalsources.com/si/6008819757082/ProductDetail/Digital-TV/product_id-100046529


Supported devices USB2.0 and USB1.1
=============================
- Typhoon/Yakumo/HAMA/Yuan DVB-T mobile USB2.0
	http://www.yakumo.de/produkte/index.php?pid=1&ag=DVB-T
	http://www.yuan.com.tw/en/products/vdo_ub300.html
	http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*114663/action*2563
	http://www.anubisline.com/english/articlec.asp?id=50502&catid=002

- Artec T1 USB TVBOX (FX2) (2)

- Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2
	http://www.hauppauge.com/

- KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0 (DiB3000M-B)

- DiBcom USB2.0 DVB-T reference device (non-public)

- AVerMedia AverTV A800 DVB-T USB2.0

1) It is working almost - work-in-progress.
2) No test reports received yet.
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB

0. History & News:
  2005-05-30 - added basic isochronous support to the dvb-usb-framework
               added support for Conexant Hybrid reference design and Nebula DigiTV USB
  2005-04-17 - all dibusb devices ported to make use of the dvb-usb-framework
  2005-04-02 - re-enabled and improved remote control code.
  2005-03-31 - ported the Yakumo/Hama/Typhoon DVB-T USB2.0 device to dvb-usb.
@@ -289,6 +216,9 @@ Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome.
   Gunnar Wittich and Joachim von Caron for their trust for providing
    root-shells on their machines to implement support for new devices.

   Allan Third and Michael Hutchinson for their help to write the Nebula
    digitv-driver.

   Glen Harris for bringing up, that there is a new dibusb-device and Jiun-Kuei
    Jung from AVerMedia who kindly provided a special firmware to get the device
    up and running in Linux.
@@ -305,4 +235,4 @@ Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome.
   Ulf Hermenau for helping me out with traditional chinese.

   André Smoktun and Christian Frömmel for supporting me with
    hardware and listening to my problems very patient.
    hardware and listening to my problems very patiently.