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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-09-01 19:28:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-09-05 13:18:03 +0300 |
| commit | 699f19e3f1e84e7e0ce3b2be7ceafe4ce99b606e (patch) | |
| tree | 5bad64214364bbfd057562637a6ca2cc67e18e30 /Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/video.rst | |
| parent | 0de6357aca39e28118edde71216ef44af7fddc39 (diff) | |
| download | linux-699f19e3f1e84e7e0ce3b2be7ceafe4ce99b606e.tar.xz | |
media: dvb uAPI docs: Prefer use "Digital TV instead of "DVB"
The usage of the term "DVB" at the dvb API docs is confusing,
as, right now, it can refer to either the European digital TV
standard or to the subsystem.
So, prefer calling it as "Digital TV" on most places, to avoid
ambiguity.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/video.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/video.rst index 60d43fb7ce22..e7d68cd0cf23 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/video.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/video.rst @@ -2,20 +2,21 @@ .. _dvb_video: -################ -DVB Video Device -################ -The DVB video device controls the MPEG2 video decoder of the DVB -hardware. It can be accessed through **/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0**. Data +####################### +Digital TV Video Device +####################### + +The Digital TV video device controls the MPEG2 video decoder of the Digital +TV hardware. It can be accessed through **/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0**. Data types and and ioctl definitions can be accessed by including **linux/dvb/video.h** in your application. -Note that the DVB video device only controls decoding of the MPEG video +Note that the Digital TV video device only controls decoding of the MPEG video stream, not its presentation on the TV or computer screen. On PCs this is typically handled by an associated video4linux device, e.g. **/dev/video**, which allows scaling and defining output windows. -Some DVB cards don’t have their own MPEG decoder, which results in the +Some Digital TV cards don’t have their own MPEG decoder, which results in the omission of the audio and video device as well as the video4linux device. |