Technical Background

Technical Background:

Systems:

• Analog TV
  • NTSC
  • PAL
  • SECAM
• Radio Data System (RDS)
• Digital TV (DTV)
  • ATSC Standards
  • DVB Standards
  • DMB-T/H Standard
  • ISDB Standards
• Modulation Schemes used for Analog & DTV
• MPEG-2 Standard
  • DSM-CC Object Carousel Protocol
• DiSEqC Protocols

Hardware Component/Chipsets Related:

• Sortable List of Chipset Vendors
• Anatomy of V4L-DVB devices
  • Tuners
  • Demodulators
  • A/V Decoders
    • Radio Decoder Chipsets
  • GPIO pins
  • I²C Protocol
  • Hardware or Software Decoder? (MPEG)
  • Hardware vs software encoders (MPEG)
  • Remote Controller chipsets
  • Interface chipsets