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Documentation for dib3000mb frontend driver and dibusb device driver
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Copyright (C) 2004 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)
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:
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- Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135 and AN2235)
http://www.arteceuro.com/products-tvbox.html
- Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 - DVB-T USB
http://www.comprousa.com/products/vmu2000.htm
- Grandtec USB DVB-T
http://www.grand.com.tw/
- Avermedia AverTV DVBT USB
http://www.avermedia.com/
- DiBcom USB DVB-T reference device (non-public)
Supported devices USB2.0
========================
- Yakumo DVB-T mobile
http://www.yakumo.de/produkte/index.php?pid=1&ag=DVB-T
- DiBcom USB2.0 DVB-T reference device (non-public)
0. NEWS:
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, 2.6.8.1, 2.6.9 .
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 :).
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://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/firmware/dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices)
http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
for USB2.0 (FX2)
http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/firmware/dvb-dibusb-6.0.0.5.fw?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
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 dvb-dibusb
modprobe dib3000mb 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
as a slave device in vdr, was not working for me. Some work has to be done
(patches and comments are very welcome).
2. Known problems and bugs
TODO:
- remote control
- signal-quality and strength calculations
- i2c address probing
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.h-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. 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 and dib3000mb are
based.
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.
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)
David Matthews for identifying a new device type (Artec T1 with AN2235)
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
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