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Sundtek is a German manufacturer/software engineering company which provides only binary closed drivers.
Sundtek is a German manufacturer/software engineering company which provides USB Touchpanel solutions, and analog and digital TV Products.

Sundtek provides their own, closed source, commercially bundled framework and drivers for DVB and V4L.They state that their solution has support for both the S2-API as well as the Legacy DVBv3 API and Video4Linux1/2, and that they have a very high backward compatibility and provide for very easy installation because of independence from kernel drivers.

Apparently they use a user space application to emulate the API that usually is provided by the v4l and dvb framework by using the kernel's USBFS interface.

They also provide a bundled video player with channel scanning ability which supports H264/AAC as well as multiple character sets.

Sundtek claims to adhere to the LinuxDVB, Video4Linux1/2 API Specifications as far as possible.


{| class="sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+'''Multimedia Devices sold by Sundtek'''
|-
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Device
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Description
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Supported
|-
| Sundtek MediaTV Pro
| Single USB DVB-C, DVB-T, AnalogTV, Composite, S-Video, FM-Radio Solution
| Supported [http://support.sundtek.de/index.php/topic,2.0.html German] [http://support.sundtek.de/index.php/topic,4.0.html English]
|-
| Sundtek MediaTV Gold (additional Mac support)
| Single USB DVB-C, DVB-T, AnalogTV, Composite, S-Video, FM-Radio Solution
| Supported [http://support.sundtek.de/index.php/topic,2.0.html German] [http://support.sundtek.de/index.php/topic,4.0.html English]
|}


==External Links==
* http://www.sundtek.de

[[Category:Vendor]]

Revision as of 16:33, 9 October 2009

Sundtek is a German manufacturer/software engineering company which provides USB Touchpanel solutions, and analog and digital TV Products.

Sundtek provides their own, closed source, commercially bundled framework and drivers for DVB and V4L.They state that their solution has support for both the S2-API as well as the Legacy DVBv3 API and Video4Linux1/2, and that they have a very high backward compatibility and provide for very easy installation because of independence from kernel drivers.

Apparently they use a user space application to emulate the API that usually is provided by the v4l and dvb framework by using the kernel's USBFS interface.

They also provide a bundled video player with channel scanning ability which supports H264/AAC as well as multiple character sets.

Sundtek claims to adhere to the LinuxDVB, Video4Linux1/2 API Specifications as far as possible.


Multimedia Devices sold by Sundtek
Device Description Supported
Sundtek MediaTV Pro Single USB DVB-C, DVB-T, AnalogTV, Composite, S-Video, FM-Radio Solution Supported German English
Sundtek MediaTV Gold (additional Mac support) Single USB DVB-C, DVB-T, AnalogTV, Composite, S-Video, FM-Radio Solution Supported German English


External Links