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authorJohannes Stezenbach <devnull@localhost>2005-03-12 20:23:51 +0000
committerJohannes Stezenbach <devnull@localhost>2005-03-12 20:23:51 +0000
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diff --git a/linux/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb b/linux/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb
index c1d55ccf9..5d7bfbfca 100644
--- a/linux/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb
+++ b/linux/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Documentation for dib3000* frontend drivers and dibusb device driver
====================================================================
-Copyright (C) 2004-5 Patrick Boettcher (patrick.boettcher@desy.de),
+Copyright (C) 2004-5 Patrick Boettcher (patrick.boettcher@desy.de),
dibusb and dib3000mb/mc drivers based on GPL code, which has
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ 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/
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ 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
+- 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
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@ Produced and reselled by KWorld:
Others:
-------
-- Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135, AN2235, AN2235 with Panasonic Tuner)
+- 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
+- Grandtec USB DVB-T
http://www.grand.com.tw/
- Avermedia AverTV DVBT USB (2)
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Supported devices USB2.0
- 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.
+ 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
@@ -114,23 +114,23 @@ Supported devices USB2.0
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
+ - 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Supported devices USB2.0
2004-05-11 - start writing the driver
1. How to use?
-NOTE: This driver was developed using Linux 2.6.6.,
+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.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ The driver is included in the kernel since Linux 2.6.10.
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
+can get it directly via
for USB1.1 (AN2135)
http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/dvb-kernel/firmware/dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw
@@ -196,50 +196,50 @@ modinfo dvb-dibusb
modprobe dib3000-common debug=<level>
modprobe dib3000mb debug=<level>
modprobe dib3000mc debug=<level>
-modprobe dvb-dibusb debug=<level>
+modprobe dvb-dibusb debug=<level>
should do the trick.
-When the driver is loaded successfully, the firmware file was in
+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.
+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
+2.1. Adding support for devices
-It is not possible to determine the range of devices based on the DiBcom
+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
+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
+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
+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.
+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
+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)
@@ -254,12 +254,12 @@ 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
+ 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)
@@ -269,17 +269,17 @@ Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome.
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
+
+ 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