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  28
  29 <book id="media_api">
  30 <bookinfo>
  31 <title>LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API</title>
  32
  33 <copyright>
  34         <year>2009-2012</year>
  35         <holder>LinuxTV Developers</holder>
  36 </copyright>
  37
  38 <legalnotice>
  39
  40 <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
  41 this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
  42 Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
  43 Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
  44 "GNU Free Documentation License"</para>
  45 </legalnotice>
  46
  47 </bookinfo>
  48
  49 <toc></toc> <!-- autogenerated -->
  50
  51 <preface>
  52         <title>Introduction</title>
  53
  54         <para>This document covers the Linux Kernel to Userspace API's used by
  55                 video and radio straming devices, including video cameras,
  56                 analog and digital TV receiver cards, AM/FM receiver cards,
  57                 streaming capture devices.</para>
  58         <para>It is divided into four parts.</para>
  59         <para>The first part covers radio, capture,
  60                 cameras and analog TV devices.</para>
  61         <para>The second part covers the
  62                 API used for digital TV and Internet reception via one of the
  63                 several digital tv standards. While it is called as DVB API,
  64                 in fact it covers several different video standards including
  65                 DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C and ATSC. The API is currently being updated
  66                 to documment support also for DVB-S2, ISDB-T and ISDB-S.</para>
  67         <para>The third part covers the Remote Controller API.</para>
  68         <para>The fourth part covers the Media Controller API.</para>
  69         <para>For additional information and for the latest development code,
  70                 see: <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org">http://linuxtv.org</ulink>.</para>
  71         <para>For discussing improvements, reporting troubles, sending new drivers, etc, please mail to: <ulink url="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media">Linux Media Mailing List (LMML).</ulink>.</para>
  72
  73 </preface>
  74
  75 <part id="v4l2spec">
  76 &sub-v4l2;
  77 </part>
  78 <part id="dvbapi">
  79 &sub-dvbapi;
  80 </part>
  81 <part id="v4ldvb_common">
  82 <partinfo>
  83 <authorgroup>
  84 <author>
  85 <firstname>Mauro</firstname>
  86 <surname>Chehab</surname>
  87 <othername role="mi">Carvalho</othername>
  88 <affiliation><address><email>mchehab@redhat.com</email></address></affiliation>
  89 <contrib>Initial version.</contrib>
  90 </author>
  91 </authorgroup>
  92 <copyright>
  93         <year>2009-2012</year>
  94         <holder>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</holder>
  95 </copyright>
  96
  97 <revhistory>
  98 <!-- Put document revisions here, newest first. -->
  99 <revision>
 100 <revnumber>1.0.0</revnumber>
 101 <date>2009-09-06</date>
 102 <authorinitials>mcc</authorinitials>
 103 <revremark>Initial revision</revremark>
 104 </revision>
 105 </revhistory>
 106 </partinfo>
 107
 108 <title>Remote Controller API</title>
 109 <chapter id="remote_controllers">
 110 &sub-remote_controllers;
 111 </chapter>
 112 </part>
 113 <part id="media_common">
 114 &sub-media-controller;
 115 </part>
 116
 117 <chapter id="gen_errors">
 118 &sub-gen-errors;
 119 </chapter>
 120
 121
 122 &sub-fdl-appendix;
 123
 124 </book>