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diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb deleted file mode 100644 index 7a9e958513f3..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb +++ /dev/null @@ -1,285 +0,0 @@ -Documentation for dib3000* frontend drivers and dibusb device driver -==================================================================== - -Copyright (C) 2004-5 Patrick Boettcher (patrick.boettcher@desy.de), - -dibusb and dib3000mb/mc drivers based on GPL code, which has - -Copyright (C) 2004 Amaury Demol for DiBcom (ademol@dibcom.fr) - -This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as -published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2. - - -Supported devices USB1.1 -======================== - -Produced and reselled by Twinhan: ---------------------------------- -- TwinhanDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041) - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_3.asp - -- TwinhanDTV Magic Box (VP7041e) - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_4.asp - -- HAMA DVB-T USB device - http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*110620/action*2598 - -- CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) (2) - http://www.2cts.tv/ctsportable/ - -- Unknown USB DVB-T device with vendor ID Hyper-Paltek - - -Produced and reselled by KWorld: --------------------------------- -- KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV DVB-T USB - http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/product/DVBT-USB/DVBT-USB.html - -- JetWay DTV DVB-T USB - http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/lcd-tv/DVT-USB/dtv-usb.htm - -- ADSTech Instant TV DVB-T USB - http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-333/intro/PTV-333_intro.asp?pid=PTV-333 - - -Others: -------- -- Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135, AN2235, AN2235 with Panasonic Tuner) - http://82.161.246.249/products-tvbox.html - -- Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 - DVB-T USB (2) - http://www.comprousa.com/products/vmu2000.htm - -- Grandtec USB DVB-T - http://www.grand.com.tw/ - -- Avermedia AverTV DVBT USB (2) - http://www.avermedia.com/ - -- DiBcom USB DVB-T reference device (non-public) - - -Supported devices USB2.0 -======================== -- Twinhan MagicBox II (2) - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_7.asp - -- Hanftek UMT-010 (1) - http://www.globalsources.com/si/6008819757082/ProductDetail/Digital-TV/product_id-100046529 - -- Typhoon/Yakumo/HAMA DVB-T mobile USB2.0 (1) - http://www.yakumo.de/produkte/index.php?pid=1&ag=DVB-T - -- Artec T1 USB TVBOX (FX2) (2) - -- Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2 - http://www.hauppauge.com/ - -- KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0 (DiB3000M-B) - -- DiBcom USB2.0 DVB-T reference device (non-public) - -1) It is working almost. -2) No test reports received yet. - - -0. NEWS: - 2005-02-11 - added support for the KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0. Thanks a lot to Joachim von Caron - 2005-02-02 - added support for the Hauppauge Win-TV Nova-T USB2 - 2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is finally gone for USB1.1 devices - 2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb - - first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010 - - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predessors of the HanfTek UMT-010 - 2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful - - tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a - Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich. - 2004-12-29 - after several days of struggling around bug of no returning URBs fixed. - 2004-12-26 - refactored the dibusb-driver, splitted into separate files - - i2c-probing enabled - 2004-12-06 - possibility for demod i2c-address probing - - new usb IDs (Compro,Artec) - 2004-11-23 - merged changes from DiB3000MC_ver2.1 - - revised the debugging - - possibility to deliver the complete TS for USB2.0 - 2004-11-21 - first working version of the dib3000mc/p frontend driver. - 2004-11-12 - added additional remote control keys. Thanks to Uwe Hanke. - 2004-11-07 - added remote control support. Thanks to David Matthews. - 2004-11-05 - added support for a new devices (Grandtec/Avermedia/Artec) - - merged my changes (for dib3000mb/dibusb) to the FE_REFACTORING, because it became HEAD - - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems - better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct) - - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb) - 2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek) - 2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks - to Amaury Demol for reporting - - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer - before setting a new pid) - 2004-09-13 - added support for a new device (Artec T1 USB TVBOX), thanks - to Christian Motschke for reporting - 2004-09-05 - released the dibusb device and dib3000mb-frontend driver - - (old news for vp7041.c) - 2004-07-15 - found out, by accident, that the device has a TUA6010XS for - PLL - 2004-07-12 - figured out, that the driver should also work with the - CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) - 2004-07-08 - firmware-extraction-2.422-problem solved, driver is now working - properly with firmware extracted from 2.422 - - #if for 2.6.4 (dvb), compile issue - - changed firmware handling, see vp7041.txt sec 1.1 - 2004-07-02 - some tuner modifications, v0.1, cleanups, first public - 2004-06-28 - now using the dvb_dmx_swfilter_packets, everything - runs fine now - 2004-06-27 - able to watch and switching channels (pre-alpha) - - no section filtering yet - 2004-06-06 - first TS received, but kernel oops :/ - 2004-05-14 - firmware loader is working - 2004-05-11 - start writing the driver - -1. How to use? -NOTE: This driver was developed using Linux 2.6.6., -it is working with 2.6.7 and above. - -Linux 2.4.x support is not planned, but patches are very welcome. - -NOTE: I'm using Debian testing, so the following explaination (especially -the hotplug-path) needn't match your system, but probably it will :). - -The driver is included in the kernel since Linux 2.6.10. - -1.1. Firmware - -The USB driver needs to download a firmware to start working. - -You can either use "get_dvb_firmware dibusb" to download the firmware or you -can get it directly via - -for USB1.1 (AN2135) -http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw - -for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices) -http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw - -for USB2.0 (FX2) Hauppauge, DiBcom -http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-6.0.0.5.fw - -for USB2.0 ADSTech/Kworld USB2.0 -http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-adstech-usb2-1.fw - -for USB2.0 HanfTek -http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw - - -1.2. Compiling - -Since the driver is in the linux kernel, activating the driver in -your favorite config-environment should sufficient. I recommend -to compile the driver as module. Hotplug does the rest. - -1.3. Loading the drivers - -Hotplug is able to load the driver, when it is needed (because you plugged -in the device). - -If you want to enable debug output, you have to load the driver manually and -from withing the dvb-kernel cvs repository. - -first have a look, which debug level are available: - -modinfo dib3000mb -modinfo dib3000-common -modinfo dib3000mc -modinfo dvb-dibusb - -modprobe dib3000-common debug=<level> -modprobe dib3000mb debug=<level> -modprobe dib3000mc debug=<level> -modprobe dvb-dibusb debug=<level> - -should do the trick. - -When the driver is loaded successfully, the firmware file was in -the right place and the device is connected, the "Power"-LED should be -turned on. - -At this point you should be able to start a dvb-capable application. For myself -I used mplayer, dvbscan, tzap and kaxtv, they are working. Using the device -in vdr is working now also. - -2. Known problems and bugs - -- Don't remove the USB device while running an DVB application, your system will die. - -2.1. Adding support for devices - -It is not possible to determine the range of devices based on the DiBcom -reference designs. This is because the reference design of DiBcom can be sold -to thirds, without telling DiBcom (so done with the Twinhan VP7041 and -the HAMA device). - -When you think you have a device like this and the driver does not recognizes it, -please send the ****load*.inf and the ****cap*.inf of the Windows driver to me. - -Sometimes the Vendor or Product ID is identical to the ones of Twinhan, even -though it is not a Twinhan device (e.g. HAMA), then please send me the name -of the device. I will add it to this list in order to make this clear to -others. - -If you are familar with C you can also add the VID and PID of the device to -the dvb-dibusb-core.c-file and create a patch and send it over to me or to -the linux-dvb mailing list, _after_ you have tried compiling and modprobing -it. - -2.2. USB1.1 Bandwidth limitation - -Most of the currently supported devices are USB1.1 and thus they have a -maximum bandwidth of about 5-6 MBit/s when connected to a USB2.0 hub. -This is not enough for receiving the complete transport stream of a -DVB-T channel (which can be about 16 MBit/s). Normally this is not a -problem, if you only want to watch TV (this does not apply for HDTV), -but watching a channel while recording another channel on the same -frequency simply does not work very well. This applies to all USB1.1 -DVB-T devices, not just dibusb) - -Update: For the USB1.1 and VDR some work has been done (patches and comments -are still very welcome). Maybe the problem is solved in the meantime because I -now use the dmx_sw_filter function instead of dmx_sw_filter_packet. I hope the -linux-dvb software filter is able to get the best of the garbled TS. - -The bug, where the TS is distorted by a heavy usage of the device is gone -definitely. All dibusb-devices I was using (Twinhan, Kworld, DiBcom) are -working like charm now with VDR. Sometimes I even was able to record a channel -and watch another one. - -2.3. Comments - -Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome. - -3. Acknowledgements - Amaury Demol (ademol@dibcom.fr) and Francois Kanounnikoff from DiBcom for - providing specs, code and help, on which the dvb-dibusb, dib3000mb and - dib3000mc are based. - - David Matthews for identifying a new device type (Artec T1 with AN2235) - and for extending dibusb with remote control event handling. Thank you. - - Alex Woods for frequently answering question about usb and dvb - stuff, a big thank you. - - Bernd Wagner for helping with huge bug reports and discussions. - - Gunnar Wittich and Joachim von Caron for their trust for giving me - root-shells on their machines to implement support for new devices. - - Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me - - Peter Schildmann >peter.schildmann-nospam-at-web.de< for his - user-level firmware loader, which saves a lot of time - (when writing the vp7041 driver) - - Ulf Hermenau for helping me out with traditional chinese. - - André Smoktun and Christian Frömmel for supporting me with - hardware and listening to my problems very patient |