Television with Linux

The LinuxTV project develops and maintains the DVB driver subsystem which is included in the Linux 2.6.x kernel. The Linux kernel and the LinuxTV CVS include a fair number of drivers for commonly available PCI cards and USB devices, but the DVB subsystem core is also targeted towards Linux based set-top-boxes.

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2008-09-28   Video Input Infrastructure Miniconf presentations at LPC/2008 is available for download

Several of the most active developers of V4L/DVB, together responsible for about 60% of the committed patches over the last year, made their presence at Linux Plumbers Conference 2008. Some of they presented their views about the evolution of kernel and userspace API evolutions. The slides are now available for download at LinuxTV website.

mchehab

2008-09-23   DVB API improvements

After years of discussions, several patch series and two different proposed approaches, LinuxTV developers finally decided that S2API is the better technical proposal and should be accepted as the way to allow supporting newer DTV standards, starting with DVB-S2.

mchehab

2008-09-19   V4L/DVB Miniconf at Linux Plumbers/2008

V4L/DVB Miniconf at Linux Plumbers/2008 was handled between Sept, 17 and Sept, 19 2008

mchehab

2007-06-28   v4l2-library initiated

A new v4l2 library is initiated to implement userspace decompression algorithms that cannot fit in kernelspace.

tmerle

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