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diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7a9e958513f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb @@ -0,0 +1,285 @@ +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 |