@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ get/set up to 64 properties. The actual meaning of each property is described on
<para><link linkend="DTV-DVBT2-PLP-ID">DTV_DVBT2_PLP_ID</link></para>
</section>
-<section id="fe_property_common">
- <title>Parameters that are common to all Digital TV standards</title>
+<section id="fe_property_parameters">
+ <title>Digital TV property parameters</title>
<section id="DTV-UNDEFINED">
<title><constant>DTV_UNDEFINED</constant></title>
<para>Used internally. A GET/SET operation for it won't change or return anything.</para>
@@ -211,6 +211,20 @@ get/set up to 64 properties. The actual meaning of each property is described on
<title><constant>DTV_CLEAR</constant></title>
<para>Reset a cache of data specific to the frontend here. This does not effect hardware.</para>
</section>
+ <section id="DTV-FREQUENCY">
+ <title><constant>DTV_FREQUENCY</constant></title>
+
+ <para>Central frequency of the channel, in HZ.</para>
+
+ <para>Notes:</para>
+ <para>1)For ISDB-T, the channels are usually transmitted with an offset of 143kHz.
+ E.g. a valid frequncy could be 474143 kHz. The stepping is bound to the bandwidth of
+ the channel which is 6MHz.</para>
+
+ <para>2)As in ISDB-Tsb the channel consists of only one or three segments the
+ frequency step is 429kHz, 3*429 respectively. As for ISDB-T the
+ central frequency of the channel is expected.</para>
+ </section>
<section id="DTV-MODULATION">
<title><constant>DTV_MODULATION</constant></title>
<para>Specifies the frontend modulation type for cable and satellite types. The modulation can be one of the types bellow:</para>
@@ -232,6 +246,32 @@ get/set up to 64 properties. The actual meaning of each property is described on
} fe_modulation_t;
</programlisting>
</section>
+ <section id="DTV-BANDWIDTH-HZ">
+ <title><constant>DTV_BANDWIDTH_HZ</constant></title>
+
+ <para>Bandwidth for the channel, in HZ.</para>
+
+ <para>Possible values:
+ <constant>1712000</constant>,
+ <constant>5000000</constant>,
+ <constant>6000000</constant>,
+ <constant>7000000</constant>,
+ <constant>8000000</constant>,
+ <constant>10000000</constant>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Notes:</para>
+
+ <para>1) For ISDB-T it should be always 6000000Hz (6MHz)</para>
+ <para>2) For ISDB-Tsb it can vary depending on the number of connected segments</para>
+ <para>3) Bandwidth doesn't apply for DVB-C transmissions, as the bandwidth
+ for DVB-C depends on the symbol rate</para>
+ <para>4) Bandwidth in ISDB-T is fixed (6MHz) or can be easily derived from
+ other parameters (DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_IDX,
+ DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT).</para>
+ <para>5) DVB-T supports 6, 7 and 8MHz.</para>
+ <para>6) In addition, DVB-T2 supports 1.172, 5 and 10MHz.</para>
+ </section>
<section id="DTV-INVERSION">
<title><constant>DTV_INVERSION</constant></title>
<para>The Inversion field can take one of these values:
@@ -338,116 +378,11 @@ typedef enum fe_rolloff {
<title><constant>DTV_FE_CAPABILITY</constant></title>
<para>Currently not implemented.</para>
</section>
- <section id="DTV-API-VERSION">
- <title><constant>DTV_API_VERSION</constant></title>
- <para>Returns the major/minor version of the DVB API</para>
- </section>
- <section id="DTV-CODE-RATE-HP">
- <title><constant>DTV_CODE_RATE_HP</constant></title>
- <para>Used on terrestrial transmissions. The acceptable values are:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-typedef enum fe_code_rate {
- FEC_NONE = 0,
- FEC_1_2,
- FEC_2_3,
- FEC_3_4,
- FEC_4_5,
- FEC_5_6,
- FEC_6_7,
- FEC_7_8,
- FEC_8_9,
- FEC_AUTO,
- FEC_3_5,
- FEC_9_10,
-} fe_code_rate_t;
- </programlisting>
- </section>
- <section id="DTV-CODE-RATE-LP">
- <title><constant>DTV_CODE_RATE_LP</constant></title>
- <para>Used on terrestrial transmissions. The acceptable values are:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-typedef enum fe_code_rate {
- FEC_NONE = 0,
- FEC_1_2,
- FEC_2_3,
- FEC_3_4,
- FEC_4_5,
- FEC_5_6,
- FEC_6_7,
- FEC_7_8,
- FEC_8_9,
- FEC_AUTO,
- FEC_3_5,
- FEC_9_10,
-} fe_code_rate_t;
- </programlisting>
- </section>
- <section id="DTV-HIERARCHY">
- <title><constant>DTV_HIERARCHY</constant></title>
- <para>Frontend hierarchy</para>
- <programlisting>
-typedef enum fe_hierarchy {
- HIERARCHY_NONE,
- HIERARCHY_1,
- HIERARCHY_2,
- HIERARCHY_4,
- HIERARCHY_AUTO
- } fe_hierarchy_t;
- </programlisting>
- </section>
- <section id="DTV-ISDBS-TS-ID">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBS_TS_ID</constant></title>
- <para>Currently unused.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="DTV-FREQUENCY">
- <title><constant>DTV_FREQUENCY</constant></title>
-
- <para>Central frequency of the channel, in HZ.</para>
-
- <para>Notes:</para>
- <para>1)For ISDB-T, the channels are usually transmitted with an offset of 143kHz.
- E.g. a valid frequncy could be 474143 kHz. The stepping is bound to the bandwidth of
- the channel which is 6MHz.</para>
-
- <para>2)As in ISDB-Tsb the channel consists of only one or three segments the
- frequency step is 429kHz, 3*429 respectively. As for ISDB-T the
- central frequency of the channel is expected.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-BANDWIDTH-HZ">
- <title><constant>DTV_BANDWIDTH_HZ</constant></title>
-
- <para>Bandwidth for the channel, in HZ.</para>
-
- <para>Possible values:
- <constant>1712000</constant>,
- <constant>5000000</constant>,
- <constant>6000000</constant>,
- <constant>7000000</constant>,
- <constant>8000000</constant>,
- <constant>10000000</constant>.
- </para>
-
- <para>Notes:</para>
-
- <para>1) For ISDB-T it should be always 6000000Hz (6MHz)</para>
- <para>2) For ISDB-Tsb it can vary depending on the number of connected segments</para>
- <para>3) Bandwidth doesn't apply for DVB-C transmissions, as the bandwidth
- for DVB-C depends on the symbol rate</para>
- <para>4) Bandwidth in ISDB-T is fixed (6MHz) or can be easily derived from
- other parameters (DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_IDX,
- DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT).</para>
- <para>5) DVB-T supports 6, 7 and 8MHz.</para>
- <para>6) In addition, DVB-T2 supports 1.172, 5 and 10MHz.</para>
- </section>
-
<section id="DTV-DELIVERY-SYSTEM">
<title><constant>DTV_DELIVERY_SYSTEM</constant></title>
-
<para>Specifies the type of Delivery system</para>
-
+ <section id="fe-delivery-system-t">
+ <title>fe_delivery_system type</title>
<para>Possible values: </para>
<programlisting>
typedef enum fe_delivery_system {
@@ -470,9 +405,247 @@ typedef enum fe_delivery_system {
SYS_DVBT2,
} fe_delivery_system_t;
</programlisting>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-PARTIAL-RECEPTION">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant></title>
+
+ <para>If <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '0' this bit-field represents whether
+ the channel is in partial reception mode or not.</para>
+
+ <para>If '1' <constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYERA_*</constant> values are assigned to the center segment and
+ <constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYERA_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> has to be '1'.</para>
+
+ <para>If in addition <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'
+ <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant> represents whether this ISDB-Tsb channel
+ is consisting of one segment and layer or three segments and two layers.</para>
+
+ <para>Possible values: 0, 1, -1 (AUTO)</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SOUND-BROADCASTING">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant></title>
+
+ <para>This field represents whether the other DTV_ISDBT_*-parameters are
+ referring to an ISDB-T and an ISDB-Tsb channel. (See also
+ <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant>).</para>
+
+ <para>Possible values: 0, 1, -1 (AUTO)</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SB-SUBCHANNEL-ID">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SUBCHANNEL_ID</constant></title>
+
+ <para>This field only applies if <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'.</para>
+
+ <para>(Note of the author: This might not be the correct description of the
+ <constant>SUBCHANNEL-ID</constant> in all details, but it is my understanding of the technical
+ background needed to program a device)</para>
+
+ <para>An ISDB-Tsb channel (1 or 3 segments) can be broadcasted alone or in a
+ set of connected ISDB-Tsb channels. In this set of channels every
+ channel can be received independently. The number of connected
+ ISDB-Tsb segment can vary, e.g. depending on the frequency spectrum
+ bandwidth available.</para>
+ <para>Example: Assume 8 ISDB-Tsb connected segments are broadcasted. The
+ broadcaster has several possibilities to put those channels in the
+ air: Assuming a normal 13-segment ISDB-T spectrum he can align the 8
+ segments from position 1-8 to 5-13 or anything in between.</para>
+
+ <para>The underlying layer of segments are subchannels: each segment is
+ consisting of several subchannels with a predefined IDs. A sub-channel
+ is used to help the demodulator to synchronize on the channel.</para>
+
+ <para>An ISDB-T channel is always centered over all sub-channels. As for
+ the example above, in ISDB-Tsb it is no longer as simple as that.</para>
+
+ <para><constant>The DTV_ISDBT_SB_SUBCHANNEL_ID</constant> parameter is used to give the
+ sub-channel ID of the segment to be demodulated.</para>
+
+ <para>Possible values: 0 .. 41, -1 (AUTO)</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SB-SEGMENT-IDX">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_IDX</constant></title>
+ <para>This field only applies if <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'.</para>
+ <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_IDX</constant> gives the index of the segment to be
+ demodulated for an ISDB-Tsb channel where several of them are
+ transmitted in the connected manner.</para>
+ <para>Possible values: 0 .. <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> - 1</para>
+ <para>Note: This value cannot be determined by an automatic channel search.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SB-SEGMENT-COUNT">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant></title>
+ <para>This field only applies if <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'.</para>
+ <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> gives the total count of connected ISDB-Tsb
+ channels.</para>
+ <para>Possible values: 1 .. 13</para>
+ <para>Note: This value cannot be determined by an automatic channel search.</para>
</section>
+ <section id="isdb-hierq-layers">
+ <title>Hierarchical layers</title>
+ <para>ISDB-T channels can be coded hierarchically. As opposed to DVB-T in
+ ISDB-T hierarchical layers can be decoded simultaneously. For that
+ reason a ISDB-T demodulator has 3 viterbi and 3 reed-solomon-decoders.</para>
+ <para>ISDB-T has 3 hierarchical layers which each can use a part of the
+ available segments. The total number of segments over all layers has
+ to 13 in ISDB-T.</para>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-ENABLED">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED</constant></title>
+ <para>Hierarchical reception in ISDB-T is achieved by enabling or disabling
+ layers in the decoding process. Setting all bits of
+ <constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED</constant> to '1' forces all layers (if applicable) to be
+ demodulated. This is the default.</para>
+ <para>If the channel is in the partial reception mode
+ (<constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant> = 1) the central segment can be decoded
+ independently of the other 12 segments. In that mode layer A has to
+ have a <constant>SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> of 1.</para>
+ <para>In ISDB-Tsb only layer A is used, it can be 1 or 3 in ISDB-Tsb
+ according to <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant>. <constant>SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> must be filled
+ accordingly.</para>
+ <para>Possible values: 0x1, 0x2, 0x4 (|-able)</para>
+ <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[0:0]</constant> - layer A</para>
+ <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[1:1]</constant> - layer B</para>
+ <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[2:2]</constant> - layer C</para>
+ <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[31:3]</constant> unused</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-FEC">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_FEC</constant></title>
+ <para>Possible values: <constant>FEC_AUTO</constant>, <constant>FEC_1_2</constant>, <constant>FEC_2_3</constant>, <constant>FEC_3_4</constant>, <constant>FEC_5_6</constant>, <constant>FEC_7_8</constant></para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-MODULATION">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_MODULATION</constant></title>
+ <para>Possible values: <constant>QAM_AUTO</constant>, QP<constant>SK, QAM_16</constant>, <constant>QAM_64</constant>, <constant>DQPSK</constant></para>
+ <para>Note: If layer C is <constant>DQPSK</constant> layer B has to be <constant>DQPSK</constant>. If layer B is <constant>DQPSK</constant>
+ and <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant>=0 layer has to be <constant>DQPSK</constant>.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-SEGMENT-COUNT">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant></title>
+ <para>Possible values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, -1 (AUTO)</para>
+ <para>Note: Truth table for <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> and
+ <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant> and <constant>LAYER</constant>*_SEGMENT_COUNT</para>
+ <informaltable id="isdbt-layer_seg-cnt-table">
+ <tgroup cols="6">
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry>PR</entry>
+ <entry>SB</entry>
+ <entry>Layer A width</entry>
+ <entry>Layer B width</entry>
+ <entry>Layer C width</entry>
+ <entry>total width</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
+ <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
+ <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
+ <entry>13</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
+ <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
+ <entry>13</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>2</entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>13</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-TIME-INTERLEAVING">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_TIME_INTERLEAVING</constant></title>
+ <para>Possible values: 0, 1, 2, 3, -1 (AUTO)</para>
+ <para>Note: The real inter-leaver depth-names depend on the mode (fft-size); the values
+ here are referring to what can be found in the TMCC-structure -
+ independent of the mode.</para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-API-VERSION">
+ <title><constant>DTV_API_VERSION</constant></title>
+ <para>Returns the major/minor version of the DVB API</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-CODE-RATE-HP">
+ <title><constant>DTV_CODE_RATE_HP</constant></title>
+ <para>Used on terrestrial transmissions. The acceptable values are:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+typedef enum fe_code_rate {
+ FEC_NONE = 0,
+ FEC_1_2,
+ FEC_2_3,
+ FEC_3_4,
+ FEC_4_5,
+ FEC_5_6,
+ FEC_6_7,
+ FEC_7_8,
+ FEC_8_9,
+ FEC_AUTO,
+ FEC_3_5,
+ FEC_9_10,
+} fe_code_rate_t;
+ </programlisting>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-CODE-RATE-LP">
+ <title><constant>DTV_CODE_RATE_LP</constant></title>
+ <para>Used on terrestrial transmissions. The acceptable values are:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+typedef enum fe_code_rate {
+ FEC_NONE = 0,
+ FEC_1_2,
+ FEC_2_3,
+ FEC_3_4,
+ FEC_4_5,
+ FEC_5_6,
+ FEC_6_7,
+ FEC_7_8,
+ FEC_8_9,
+ FEC_AUTO,
+ FEC_3_5,
+ FEC_9_10,
+} fe_code_rate_t;
+ </programlisting>
+ </section>
+ <section id="DTV-GUARD-INTERVAL">
+ <title><constant>DTV_GUARD_INTERVAL</constant></title>
+
+ <para>Possible values are:</para>
+<programlisting>
+typedef enum fe_guard_interval {
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_1_128,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_19_128,
+ GUARD_INTERVAL_19_256,
+} fe_guard_interval_t;
+</programlisting>
+ <para>Notes:</para>
+ <para>1) If <constant>DTV_GUARD_INTERVAL</constant> is set the <constant>GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO</constant> the hardware will
+ try to find the correct guard interval (if capable) and will use TMCC to fill
+ in the missing parameters.</para>
+ <para>2) Intervals 1/128, 19/128 and 19/256 are used only for DVB-T2 at present</para>
+ </section>
<section id="DTV-TRANSMISSION-MODE">
<title><constant>DTV_TRANSMISSION_MODE</constant></title>
@@ -490,7 +663,6 @@ typedef enum fe_transmit_mode {
TRANSMISSION_MODE_32K,
} fe_transmit_mode_t;
</programlisting>
-
<para>Notes:</para>
<para>1) ISDB-T supports three carrier/symbol-size: 8K, 4K, 2K. It is called
'mode' in the standard: Mode 1 is 2K, mode 2 is 4K, mode 3 is 8K</para>
@@ -501,291 +673,60 @@ typedef enum fe_transmit_mode {
<para>3) DVB-T specifies 2K and 8K as valid sizes.</para>
<para>4) DVB-T2 specifies 1K, 2K, 4K, 8K, 16K and 32K.</para>
</section>
-
- <section id="DTV-GUARD-INTERVAL">
- <title><constant>DTV_GUARD_INTERVAL</constant></title>
-
- <para>Possible values are:</para>
-<programlisting>
-typedef enum fe_guard_interval {
- GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_1_128,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_19_128,
- GUARD_INTERVAL_19_256,
-} fe_guard_interval_t;
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>Notes:</para>
- <para>1) If <constant>DTV_GUARD_INTERVAL</constant> is set the <constant>GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO</constant> the hardware will
- try to find the correct guard interval (if capable) and will use TMCC to fill
- in the missing parameters.</para>
- <para>2) Intervals 1/128, 19/128 and 19/256 are used only for DVB-T2 at present</para>
+ <section id="DTV-HIERARCHY">
+ <title><constant>DTV_HIERARCHY</constant></title>
+ <para>Frontend hierarchy</para>
+ <programlisting>
+typedef enum fe_hierarchy {
+ HIERARCHY_NONE,
+ HIERARCHY_1,
+ HIERARCHY_2,
+ HIERARCHY_4,
+ HIERARCHY_AUTO
+ } fe_hierarchy_t;
+ </programlisting>
</section>
-</section>
-
-<section id="isdbt">
- <title>ISDB-T frontend</title>
- <para>This section describes shortly what are the possible parameters in the Linux
- DVB-API called "S2API" and now DVB API 5 in order to tune an ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb
- demodulator:</para>
-
- <para>This ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb API extension should reflect all information
- needed to tune any ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb hardware. Of course it is possible
- that some very sophisticated devices won't need certain parameters to
- tune.</para>
-
- <para>The information given here should help application writers to know how
- to handle ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb hardware using the Linux DVB-API.</para>
-
- <para>The details given here about ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb are just enough to
- basically show the dependencies between the needed parameter values,
- but surely some information is left out. For more detailed information
- see the following documents:</para>
-
- <para>ARIB STD-B31 - "Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial
- Television Broadcasting" and</para>
- <para>ARIB TR-B14 - "Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial
- Television Broadcasting".</para>
-
- <para>In order to read this document one has to have some knowledge the
- channel structure in ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb. I.e. it has to be known to
- the reader that an ISDB-T channel consists of 13 segments, that it can
- have up to 3 layer sharing those segments, and things like that.</para>
-
- <para>Parameters used by ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb.</para>
-
- <section id="isdbt-new-parms">
- <title>ISDB-T only parameters</title>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-PARTIAL-RECEPTION">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant></title>
-
- <para>If <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '0' this bit-field represents whether
- the channel is in partial reception mode or not.</para>
-
- <para>If '1' <constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYERA_*</constant> values are assigned to the center segment and
- <constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYERA_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> has to be '1'.</para>
-
- <para>If in addition <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'
- <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant> represents whether this ISDB-Tsb channel
- is consisting of one segment and layer or three segments and two layers.</para>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0, 1, -1 (AUTO)</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SOUND-BROADCASTING">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant></title>
-
- <para>This field represents whether the other DTV_ISDBT_*-parameters are
- referring to an ISDB-T and an ISDB-Tsb channel. (See also
- <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant>).</para>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0, 1, -1 (AUTO)</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SB-SUBCHANNEL-ID">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SUBCHANNEL_ID</constant></title>
-
- <para>This field only applies if <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'.</para>
-
- <para>(Note of the author: This might not be the correct description of the
- <constant>SUBCHANNEL-ID</constant> in all details, but it is my understanding of the technical
- background needed to program a device)</para>
-
- <para>An ISDB-Tsb channel (1 or 3 segments) can be broadcasted alone or in a
- set of connected ISDB-Tsb channels. In this set of channels every
- channel can be received independently. The number of connected
- ISDB-Tsb segment can vary, e.g. depending on the frequency spectrum
- bandwidth available.</para>
-
- <para>Example: Assume 8 ISDB-Tsb connected segments are broadcasted. The
- broadcaster has several possibilities to put those channels in the
- air: Assuming a normal 13-segment ISDB-T spectrum he can align the 8
- segments from position 1-8 to 5-13 or anything in between.</para>
-
- <para>The underlying layer of segments are subchannels: each segment is
- consisting of several subchannels with a predefined IDs. A sub-channel
- is used to help the demodulator to synchronize on the channel.</para>
-
- <para>An ISDB-T channel is always centered over all sub-channels. As for
- the example above, in ISDB-Tsb it is no longer as simple as that.</para>
-
- <para><constant>The DTV_ISDBT_SB_SUBCHANNEL_ID</constant> parameter is used to give the
- sub-channel ID of the segment to be demodulated.</para>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0 .. 41, -1 (AUTO)</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SB-SEGMENT-IDX">
-
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_IDX</constant></title>
-
- <para>This field only applies if <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'.</para>
-
- <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_IDX</constant> gives the index of the segment to be
- demodulated for an ISDB-Tsb channel where several of them are
- transmitted in the connected manner.</para>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0 .. <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> - 1</para>
-
- <para>Note: This value cannot be determined by an automatic channel search.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-SB-SEGMENT-COUNT">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant></title>
-
- <para>This field only applies if <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> is '1'.</para>
-
- <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_SB_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> gives the total count of connected ISDB-Tsb
- channels.</para>
-
- <para>Possible values: 1 .. 13</para>
-
- <para>Note: This value cannot be determined by an automatic channel search.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="isdb-hierq-layers">
- <title>Hierarchical layers</title>
-
- <para>ISDB-T channels can be coded hierarchically. As opposed to DVB-T in
- ISDB-T hierarchical layers can be decoded simultaneously. For that
- reason a ISDB-T demodulator has 3 viterbi and 3 reed-solomon-decoders.</para>
-
- <para>ISDB-T has 3 hierarchical layers which each can use a part of the
- available segments. The total number of segments over all layers has
- to 13 in ISDB-T.</para>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-ENABLED">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED</constant></title>
-
- <para>Hierarchical reception in ISDB-T is achieved by enabling or disabling
- layers in the decoding process. Setting all bits of
- <constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED</constant> to '1' forces all layers (if applicable) to be
- demodulated. This is the default.</para>
-
- <para>If the channel is in the partial reception mode
- (<constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant> = 1) the central segment can be decoded
- independently of the other 12 segments. In that mode layer A has to
- have a <constant>SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> of 1.</para>
-
- <para>In ISDB-Tsb only layer A is used, it can be 1 or 3 in ISDB-Tsb
- according to <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant>. <constant>SEGMENT_COUNT</constant> must be filled
- accordingly.</para>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0x1, 0x2, 0x4 (|-able)</para>
-
- <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[0:0]</constant> - layer A</para>
- <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[1:1]</constant> - layer B</para>
- <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[2:2]</constant> - layer C</para>
- <para><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER_ENABLED[31:3]</constant> unused</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-FEC">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_FEC</constant></title>
-
- <para>Possible values: <constant>FEC_AUTO</constant>, <constant>FEC_1_2</constant>, <constant>FEC_2_3</constant>, <constant>FEC_3_4</constant>, <constant>FEC_5_6</constant>, <constant>FEC_7_8</constant></para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-MODULATION">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_MODULATION</constant></title>
-
- <para>Possible values: <constant>QAM_AUTO</constant>, QP<constant>SK, QAM_16</constant>, <constant>QAM_64</constant>, <constant>DQPSK</constant></para>
-
- <para>Note: If layer C is <constant>DQPSK</constant> layer B has to be <constant>DQPSK</constant>. If layer B is <constant>DQPSK</constant>
- and <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant>=0 layer has to be <constant>DQPSK</constant>.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-SEGMENT-COUNT">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_SEGMENT_COUNT</constant></title>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, -1 (AUTO)</para>
-
- <para>Note: Truth table for <constant>DTV_ISDBT_SOUND_BROADCASTING</constant> and
- <constant>DTV_ISDBT_PARTIAL_RECEPTION</constant> and <constant>LAYER</constant>*_SEGMENT_COUNT</para>
-
- <informaltable id="isdbt-layer_seg-cnt-table">
- <tgroup cols="6">
-
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>PR</entry>
- <entry>SB</entry>
- <entry>Layer A width</entry>
- <entry>Layer B width</entry>
- <entry>Layer C width</entry>
- <entry>total width</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
- <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
- <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
- <entry>13</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
- <entry>1 .. 13</entry>
- <entry>13</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- <entry>2</entry>
- <entry>0</entry>
- <entry>13</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
-
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="DTV-ISDBT-LAYER-TIME-INTERLEAVING">
- <title><constant>DTV_ISDBT_LAYER*_TIME_INTERLEAVING</constant></title>
-
- <para>Possible values: 0, 1, 2, 3, -1 (AUTO)</para>
-
- <para>Note: The real inter-leaver depth-names depend on the mode (fft-size); the values
- here are referring to what can be found in the TMCC-structure -
- independent of the mode.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
+ <section id="DTV-ISDBS-TS-ID">
+ <title><constant>DTV_ISDBS_TS_ID</constant></title>
+ <para>Currently unused.</para>
</section>
- <section id="dvbt2-params">
- <title>DVB-T2 parameters</title>
-
- <para>This section covers parameters that apply only to the DVB-T2 delivery method. DVB-T2
- support is currently in the early stages development so expect this section to grow
- and become more detailed with time.</para>
-
- <section id="DTV-DVBT2-PLP-ID">
- <title><constant>DTV_DVBT2_PLP_ID</constant></title>
-
- <para>DVB-T2 supports Physical Layer Pipes (PLP) to allow transmission of
- many data types via a single multiplex. The API will soon support this
- at which point this section will be expanded.</para>
+ <section id="DTV-DVBT2-PLP-ID">
+ <title><constant>DTV_DVBT2_PLP_ID</constant></title>
+ <para>DVB-T2 supports Physical Layer Pipes (PLP) to allow transmission of
+ many data types via a single multiplex. The API will soon support this
+ at which point this section will be expanded.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="frontend-property-dtv-types">
+ <title>Properties used by each DTV type</title>
+ <section id="isdbt">
+ <title>ISDB-T frontend</title>
+ <para>This section describes shortly what are the possible parameters in the Linux
+ DVB-API called "S2API" and now DVB API 5 in order to tune an ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb
+ demodulator:</para>
+ <para>This ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb API extension should reflect all information
+ needed to tune any ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb hardware. Of course it is possible
+ that some very sophisticated devices won't need certain parameters to
+ tune.</para>
+ <para>The information given here should help application writers to know how
+ to handle ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb hardware using the Linux DVB-API.</para>
+ <para>The details given here about ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb are just enough to
+ basically show the dependencies between the needed parameter values,
+ but surely some information is left out. For more detailed information
+ see the following documents:</para>
+ <para>ARIB STD-B31 - "Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial
+ Television Broadcasting" and</para>
+ <para>ARIB TR-B14 - "Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial
+ Television Broadcasting".</para>
+ <para>In order to read this document one has to have some knowledge the
+ channel structure in ISDB-T and ISDB-Tsb. I.e. it has to be known to
+ the reader that an ISDB-T channel consists of 13 segments, that it can
+ have up to 3 layer sharing those segments, and things like that.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="dvbt2-params">
+ <title>DVB-T2 parameters</title>
+ <para>This section covers parameters that apply only to the DVB-T2 delivery method. DVB-T2
+ support is currently in the early stages development so expect this section to grow
+ and become more detailed with time.</para>
</section>
</section>
</section>
Put the parameters at the sequencial order as they appear inside the frontend.h header. TODO: fix the per-standard section, to reflect the parameters that should actually be used for each transmission system type. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>