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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
tree | 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /Documentation/dvb/README.dibusb |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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1 | Documentation for dib3000* frontend drivers and dibusb device driver | ||
2 | ==================================================================== | ||
3 | |||
4 | Copyright (C) 2004-5 Patrick Boettcher (patrick.boettcher@desy.de), | ||
5 | |||
6 | dibusb and dib3000mb/mc drivers based on GPL code, which has | ||
7 | |||
8 | Copyright (C) 2004 Amaury Demol for DiBcom (ademol@dibcom.fr) | ||
9 | |||
10 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | ||
11 | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as | ||
12 | published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2. | ||
13 | |||
14 | |||
15 | Supported devices USB1.1 | ||
16 | ======================== | ||
17 | |||
18 | Produced and reselled by Twinhan: | ||
19 | --------------------------------- | ||
20 | - TwinhanDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041) | ||
21 | http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_3.asp | ||
22 | |||
23 | - TwinhanDTV Magic Box (VP7041e) | ||
24 | http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_4.asp | ||
25 | |||
26 | - HAMA DVB-T USB device | ||
27 | http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*110620/action*2598 | ||
28 | |||
29 | - CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) (2) | ||
30 | http://www.2cts.tv/ctsportable/ | ||
31 | |||
32 | - Unknown USB DVB-T device with vendor ID Hyper-Paltek | ||
33 | |||
34 | |||
35 | Produced and reselled by KWorld: | ||
36 | -------------------------------- | ||
37 | - KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV DVB-T USB | ||
38 | http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/product/DVBT-USB/DVBT-USB.html | ||
39 | |||
40 | - JetWay DTV DVB-T USB | ||
41 | http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/lcd-tv/DVT-USB/dtv-usb.htm | ||
42 | |||
43 | - ADSTech Instant TV DVB-T USB | ||
44 | http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-333/intro/PTV-333_intro.asp?pid=PTV-333 | ||
45 | |||
46 | |||
47 | Others: | ||
48 | ------- | ||
49 | - Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135, AN2235, AN2235 with Panasonic Tuner) | ||
50 | http://82.161.246.249/products-tvbox.html | ||
51 | |||
52 | - Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 - DVB-T USB (2) | ||
53 | http://www.comprousa.com/products/vmu2000.htm | ||
54 | |||
55 | - Grandtec USB DVB-T | ||
56 | http://www.grand.com.tw/ | ||
57 | |||
58 | - Avermedia AverTV DVBT USB (2) | ||
59 | http://www.avermedia.com/ | ||
60 | |||
61 | - DiBcom USB DVB-T reference device (non-public) | ||
62 | |||
63 | |||
64 | Supported devices USB2.0 | ||
65 | ======================== | ||
66 | - Twinhan MagicBox II (2) | ||
67 | http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_7.asp | ||
68 | |||
69 | - Hanftek UMT-010 (1) | ||
70 | http://www.globalsources.com/si/6008819757082/ProductDetail/Digital-TV/product_id-100046529 | ||
71 | |||
72 | - Typhoon/Yakumo/HAMA DVB-T mobile USB2.0 (1) | ||
73 | http://www.yakumo.de/produkte/index.php?pid=1&ag=DVB-T | ||
74 | |||
75 | - Artec T1 USB TVBOX (FX2) (2) | ||
76 | |||
77 | - Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2 | ||
78 | http://www.hauppauge.com/ | ||
79 | |||
80 | - KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0 (DiB3000M-B) | ||
81 | |||
82 | - DiBcom USB2.0 DVB-T reference device (non-public) | ||
83 | |||
84 | 1) It is working almost. | ||
85 | 2) No test reports received yet. | ||
86 | |||
87 | |||
88 | 0. NEWS: | ||
89 | 2005-02-11 - added support for the KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0. Thanks a lot to Joachim von Caron | ||
90 | 2005-02-02 - added support for the Hauppauge Win-TV Nova-T USB2 | ||
91 | 2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is finally gone for USB1.1 devices | ||
92 | 2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb | ||
93 | - first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010 | ||
94 | - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predessors of the HanfTek UMT-010 | ||
95 | 2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful | ||
96 | - tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a | ||
97 | Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich. | ||
98 | 2004-12-29 - after several days of struggling around bug of no returning URBs fixed. | ||
99 | 2004-12-26 - refactored the dibusb-driver, splitted into separate files | ||
100 | - i2c-probing enabled | ||
101 | 2004-12-06 - possibility for demod i2c-address probing | ||
102 | - new usb IDs (Compro,Artec) | ||
103 | 2004-11-23 - merged changes from DiB3000MC_ver2.1 | ||
104 | - revised the debugging | ||
105 | - possibility to deliver the complete TS for USB2.0 | ||
106 | 2004-11-21 - first working version of the dib3000mc/p frontend driver. | ||
107 | 2004-11-12 - added additional remote control keys. Thanks to Uwe Hanke. | ||
108 | 2004-11-07 - added remote control support. Thanks to David Matthews. | ||
109 | 2004-11-05 - added support for a new devices (Grandtec/Avermedia/Artec) | ||
110 | - merged my changes (for dib3000mb/dibusb) to the FE_REFACTORING, because it became HEAD | ||
111 | - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems | ||
112 | better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct) | ||
113 | - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb) | ||
114 | 2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek) | ||
115 | 2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks | ||
116 | to Amaury Demol for reporting | ||
117 | - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer | ||
118 | before setting a new pid) | ||
119 | 2004-09-13 - added support for a new device (Artec T1 USB TVBOX), thanks | ||
120 | to Christian Motschke for reporting | ||
121 | 2004-09-05 - released the dibusb device and dib3000mb-frontend driver | ||
122 | |||
123 | (old news for vp7041.c) | ||
124 | 2004-07-15 - found out, by accident, that the device has a TUA6010XS for | ||
125 | PLL | ||
126 | 2004-07-12 - figured out, that the driver should also work with the | ||
127 | CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) | ||
128 | 2004-07-08 - firmware-extraction-2.422-problem solved, driver is now working | ||
129 | properly with firmware extracted from 2.422 | ||
130 | - #if for 2.6.4 (dvb), compile issue | ||
131 | - changed firmware handling, see vp7041.txt sec 1.1 | ||
132 | 2004-07-02 - some tuner modifications, v0.1, cleanups, first public | ||
133 | 2004-06-28 - now using the dvb_dmx_swfilter_packets, everything | ||
134 | runs fine now | ||
135 | 2004-06-27 - able to watch and switching channels (pre-alpha) | ||
136 | - no section filtering yet | ||
137 | 2004-06-06 - first TS received, but kernel oops :/ | ||
138 | 2004-05-14 - firmware loader is working | ||
139 | 2004-05-11 - start writing the driver | ||
140 | |||
141 | 1. How to use? | ||
142 | NOTE: This driver was developed using Linux 2.6.6., | ||
143 | it is working with 2.6.7 and above. | ||
144 | |||
145 | Linux 2.4.x support is not planned, but patches are very welcome. | ||
146 | |||
147 | NOTE: I'm using Debian testing, so the following explaination (especially | ||
148 | the hotplug-path) needn't match your system, but probably it will :). | ||
149 | |||
150 | The driver is included in the kernel since Linux 2.6.10. | ||
151 | |||
152 | 1.1. Firmware | ||
153 | |||
154 | The USB driver needs to download a firmware to start working. | ||
155 | |||
156 | You can either use "get_dvb_firmware dibusb" to download the firmware or you | ||
157 | can get it directly via | ||
158 | |||
159 | for USB1.1 (AN2135) | ||
160 | http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw | ||
161 | |||
162 | for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices) | ||
163 | http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw | ||
164 | |||
165 | for USB2.0 (FX2) Hauppauge, DiBcom | ||
166 | http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-6.0.0.5.fw | ||
167 | |||
168 | for USB2.0 ADSTech/Kworld USB2.0 | ||
169 | http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-adstech-usb2-1.fw | ||
170 | |||
171 | for USB2.0 HanfTek | ||
172 | http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw | ||
173 | |||
174 | |||
175 | 1.2. Compiling | ||
176 | |||
177 | Since the driver is in the linux kernel, activating the driver in | ||
178 | your favorite config-environment should sufficient. I recommend | ||
179 | to compile the driver as module. Hotplug does the rest. | ||
180 | |||
181 | 1.3. Loading the drivers | ||
182 | |||
183 | Hotplug is able to load the driver, when it is needed (because you plugged | ||
184 | in the device). | ||
185 | |||
186 | If you want to enable debug output, you have to load the driver manually and | ||
187 | from withing the dvb-kernel cvs repository. | ||
188 | |||
189 | first have a look, which debug level are available: | ||
190 | |||
191 | modinfo dib3000mb | ||
192 | modinfo dib3000-common | ||
193 | modinfo dib3000mc | ||
194 | modinfo dvb-dibusb | ||
195 | |||
196 | modprobe dib3000-common debug=<level> | ||
197 | modprobe dib3000mb debug=<level> | ||
198 | modprobe dib3000mc debug=<level> | ||
199 | modprobe dvb-dibusb debug=<level> | ||
200 | |||
201 | should do the trick. | ||
202 | |||
203 | When the driver is loaded successfully, the firmware file was in | ||
204 | the right place and the device is connected, the "Power"-LED should be | ||
205 | turned on. | ||
206 | |||
207 | At this point you should be able to start a dvb-capable application. For myself | ||
208 | I used mplayer, dvbscan, tzap and kaxtv, they are working. Using the device | ||
209 | in vdr is working now also. | ||
210 | |||
211 | 2. Known problems and bugs | ||
212 | |||
213 | - Don't remove the USB device while running an DVB application, your system will die. | ||
214 | |||
215 | 2.1. Adding support for devices | ||
216 | |||
217 | It is not possible to determine the range of devices based on the DiBcom | ||
218 | reference designs. This is because the reference design of DiBcom can be sold | ||
219 | to thirds, without telling DiBcom (so done with the Twinhan VP7041 and | ||
220 | the HAMA device). | ||
221 | |||
222 | When you think you have a device like this and the driver does not recognizes it, | ||
223 | please send the ****load*.inf and the ****cap*.inf of the Windows driver to me. | ||
224 | |||
225 | Sometimes the Vendor or Product ID is identical to the ones of Twinhan, even | ||
226 | though it is not a Twinhan device (e.g. HAMA), then please send me the name | ||
227 | of the device. I will add it to this list in order to make this clear to | ||
228 | others. | ||
229 | |||
230 | If you are familar with C you can also add the VID and PID of the device to | ||
231 | the dvb-dibusb-core.c-file and create a patch and send it over to me or to | ||
232 | the linux-dvb mailing list, _after_ you have tried compiling and modprobing | ||
233 | it. | ||
234 | |||
235 | 2.2. USB1.1 Bandwidth limitation | ||
236 | |||
237 | Most of the currently supported devices are USB1.1 and thus they have a | ||
238 | maximum bandwidth of about 5-6 MBit/s when connected to a USB2.0 hub. | ||
239 | This is not enough for receiving the complete transport stream of a | ||
240 | DVB-T channel (which can be about 16 MBit/s). Normally this is not a | ||
241 | problem, if you only want to watch TV (this does not apply for HDTV), | ||
242 | but watching a channel while recording another channel on the same | ||
243 | frequency simply does not work very well. This applies to all USB1.1 | ||
244 | DVB-T devices, not just dibusb) | ||
245 | |||
246 | Update: For the USB1.1 and VDR some work has been done (patches and comments | ||
247 | are still very welcome). Maybe the problem is solved in the meantime because I | ||
248 | now use the dmx_sw_filter function instead of dmx_sw_filter_packet. I hope the | ||
249 | linux-dvb software filter is able to get the best of the garbled TS. | ||
250 | |||
251 | The bug, where the TS is distorted by a heavy usage of the device is gone | ||
252 | definitely. All dibusb-devices I was using (Twinhan, Kworld, DiBcom) are | ||
253 | working like charm now with VDR. Sometimes I even was able to record a channel | ||
254 | and watch another one. | ||
255 | |||
256 | 2.3. Comments | ||
257 | |||
258 | Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome. | ||
259 | |||
260 | 3. Acknowledgements | ||
261 | Amaury Demol (ademol@dibcom.fr) and Francois Kanounnikoff from DiBcom for | ||
262 | providing specs, code and help, on which the dvb-dibusb, dib3000mb and | ||
263 | dib3000mc are based. | ||
264 | |||
265 | David Matthews for identifying a new device type (Artec T1 with AN2235) | ||
266 | and for extending dibusb with remote control event handling. Thank you. | ||
267 | |||
268 | Alex Woods for frequently answering question about usb and dvb | ||
269 | stuff, a big thank you. | ||
270 | |||
271 | Bernd Wagner for helping with huge bug reports and discussions. | ||
272 | |||
273 | Gunnar Wittich and Joachim von Caron for their trust for giving me | ||
274 | root-shells on their machines to implement support for new devices. | ||
275 | |||
276 | Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me | ||
277 | |||
278 | Peter Schildmann >peter.schildmann-nospam-at-web.de< for his | ||
279 | user-level firmware loader, which saves a lot of time | ||
280 | (when writing the vp7041 driver) | ||
281 | |||
282 | Ulf Hermenau for helping me out with traditional chinese. | ||
283 | |||
284 | André Smoktun and Christian Frömmel for supporting me with | ||
285 | hardware and listening to my problems very patient | ||