X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?p=cascardo%2Flinux.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fdvb%2Favermedia.txt;h=e44c009ac6c5ef8dcf7cd5d295631b17ecc90e4f;hp=2dc260b2b0a4a417c0e489b4713037373d1b0dd5;hb=7e4c224abfe8e2a00f56a2ef0198e6de3ca1852c;hpb=20234989a8ae0ff418e2acdef72205fb7cb3f819 diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt b/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt index 2dc260b2b0a4..e44c009ac6c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - HOWTO: Get An Avermedia DVB-T working under Linux ______________________________________________ @@ -46,9 +45,9 @@ Assumptions and Introduction by circuitry on the card and is often presented uncompressed. For a PAL TV signal encoded at a resolution of 768x576 24-bit color pixels over 25 frames per second - a fair amount of data - is generated and must be proceesed by the PC before it can be + is generated and must be processed by the PC before it can be displayed on the video monitor screen. Some Analogue TV cards - for PC's have onboard MPEG2 encoders which permit the raw + for PCs have onboard MPEG2 encoders which permit the raw digital data stream to be presented to the PC in an encoded and compressed form - similar to the form that is used in Digital TV. @@ -137,11 +136,8 @@ Getting the card going To power up the card, load the following modules in the following order: - * insmod dvb-core.o - * modprobe bttv.o - * insmod bt878.o - * insmod dvb-bt8xx.o - * insmod sp887x.o + * modprobe bttv (normally loaded automatically) + * modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules) Insertion of these modules into the running kernel will activate the appropriate DVB device nodes. It is then possible @@ -150,7 +146,8 @@ Getting the card going The frontend module sp887x.o, requires an external firmware. Please use the command "get_dvb_firmware sp887x" to download - it. Then copy it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. + it. Then copy it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware or /lib/firmware/ + (depending on configuration of firmware hotplug). Receiving DVB-T in Australia @@ -301,4 +298,4 @@ Further Update Many thanks to Nigel Pearson for the updates to this document since the recent revision of the driver. - January 29th 2004 + February 14th 2006