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30.Dd August 30, 2011
31.Dt DTV 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm dtv
35.Nd interface for digital television
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "dtv* at dtvbus?"
38.Pp
39.In dev/dtv/dtvio.h
40.In dev/dtv/dtvio_demux.h
41.In dev/dtv/dtvio_frontend.h
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The machine-independent
44.Nm
45interface provides support for digital television
46.Pq Dv DTV .
47A subset of the Linux Digital Video Broadcasting
48.Pq Dv DVB
49.Dv APIs
50is supported.
51In particular,
52.Nm
53provides the DVB frontend and demodulator
54.Dv APIs .
55.Sh SUPPORTED DEVICES
56The following machine-independent devices are supported:
57.Bl -tag -width "auvitek(4) " -offset indent
58.It Xr auvitek 4
59Auvitek AU0828-based video capture cards
60.It Xr emdtv 4
61EM28XX-based DTV cards
62.\"
63.\" XXX: Uncomment once the stub-pages are actually installed.
64.\"
65.\" .It Xr coram 4
66.\" Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250
67.\" .It Xr cxdtv 4
68.\" Conexant CX2388X-based DTV cards
69.El
70.Pp
71Note that the
72.Nm
73device drivers are generally only available as kernel modules; see
74.Xr module 7
75and
76.Xr modload 8
77for additional details.
78Refer to
79.Xr dtviic 4
80for details about the supported demodulators and tuners.
81.Sh FILES
82.Bl -tag -width 28n
83.It Pa /dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend0
84The frontend device, for controlling the tuner and demodulator hardware.
85.It Pa /dev/dvb/adapterN/demux0
86The demux device, for controlling the hardware filters.
87.It Pa /dev/dvb/adapterN/dvr0
88Digital video recording device.
89.El
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Xr auvitek 4 ,
92.Xr dtviic 4 ,
93.Xr emdtv 4 ,
94.\" coram 4 ,
95.\" cxdtv 4 ,
96.Xr video 9
97.Pp
98.Pa pkgsrc/multimedia/dvb-apps ,
99.Pa pkgsrc/multimedia/mplayer
100.Rs
101.%T Linux Media Infrastructure API.
102.%T Part II. Linux DVB API
103.%D 2011
104.%U http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/dvbapi.html
105.Re
106.Sh HISTORY
107The
108.Nm
109interface first appeared in
110.Nx 6.0 .
111.Sh AUTHORS
112.An Jared D. McNeill
113.Aq jmcneill@invisible.ca
114