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This Wiki is intended to become the ultimate resource regarding all questions about Video, TV and DVB support on Linux, free DVB software and cool projects. Like every other Wiki it relies on the contributions of its users. Also this Wiki can only get as good as you and we mean: YOU!!! make it. Whatever you can contribute will be highly appreciated, no matter if it's a HOWTO, help and explanations how to write a driver, how to install some a driver or whether you can explain how that beast called DVB is working. have fun, enjoy, The LinuxTV WikiTeam

The basic plan is to collect both experiences, HOWTOs, encyclopedia-alike information and explanations how DVB, MPEG and MHP work, what is an EPG and so on, so that this will get a place useful for everybody who is doing anything related to analog or digital TV. Save and share knowledge.

Technical Background DVB Standard MPEG2 Standard Analog TV Digital TV Modulation Schemes used for Analog and Digital TV PCI interface chipsets used for DVB cards DVB at the USB bus i2c Protocol Software LinuxTV Drivers VDR-Wiki:VDR Hardware solutions Barebones and bundles Commercial solutions Examples of hardware Streaming clients Periphery for linuxtv-computers Sat antenna DVB-T antenna Dolby Digital receiver DVB Links

Hardware-Components DVB cards: Developers Section: Supported DVB cards DVB cards requiring definition Users Section: Cards sorted by DVB-Source DVB-S cards DVB-T cards DVB-C cards Cards sorted by Vendor Cards sorted by device PCI-cards PC-cardslot-cards USB-boxes Firewire-boxes DVB-T (Remove this section? They are already sorted by device inside the DVB-Source pages above) Card moddings DVB 4MB Tuning Cooling mods

Some existing links imported from the old website: [they all need to get cleaned up, please read the discussion texts, every help is highly appreciated!!!]

TODO: somehow the edit help index does not work, should we link directly into wikipedia:help?