V4L/DVB (12761): DocBook: add media API specs
The V4L and DVB API's are there for a long time. however, up to now, no efforts were done to merge them to kernel DocBook. This patch adds the current versions of the specs as an unique compendium. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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<title>Teletext Interface</title>
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<para>This interface aims at devices receiving and demodulating
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Teletext data [<xref linkend="ets300706" />, <xref linkend="itu653" />], evaluating the
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Teletext packages and storing formatted pages in cache memory. Such
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devices are usually implemented as microcontrollers with serial
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interface (I<superscript>2</superscript>C) and can be found on older
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TV cards, dedicated Teletext decoding cards and home-brew devices
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connected to the PC parallel port.</para>
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<para>The Teletext API was designed by Martin Buck. It is defined in
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the kernel header file <filename>linux/videotext.h</filename>, the
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specification is available from <ulink url="http://home.pages.de/~videotext/">
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http://home.pages.de/~videotext/</ulink>. (Videotext is the name of
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the German public television Teletext service.) Conventional character
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device file names are <filename>/dev/vtx</filename> and
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<filename>/dev/vttuner</filename>, with device number 83, 0 and 83, 16
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respectively. A similar interface exists for the Philips SAA5249
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Teletext decoder [specification?] with character device file names
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<filename>/dev/tlkN</filename>, device number 102, N.</para>
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<para>Eventually the Teletext API was integrated into the V4L API
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with character device file names <filename>/dev/vtx0</filename> to
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<filename>/dev/vtx31</filename>, device major number 81, minor numbers
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192 to 223. For reference the V4L Teletext API specification is
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reproduced here in full: "Teletext interfaces talk the existing VTX
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API." Teletext devices with major number 83 and 102 will be removed in
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Linux 2.6.</para>
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<para>There are no plans to replace the Teletext API or to integrate
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it into V4L2. Please write to the linux-media mailing list: &v4l-ml;
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when the need arises.</para>
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<!--
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Local Variables:
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mode: sgml
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sgml-parent-document: "v4l2.sgml"
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indent-tabs-mode: nil
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End:
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-->
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