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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+======================================
+Avermedia DVB-T on BT878 Release Notes
+======================================
+
+February 14th 2006
+
+.. note::
+
+ Several other Avermedia devices are supported. For a more
+ broader and updated content about that, please check:
+
+ https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/AVerMedia
+
+The Avermedia DVB-T
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Avermedia DVB-T is a budget PCI DVB card. It has 3 inputs:
+
+* RF Tuner Input
+* Composite Video Input (RCA Jack)
+* SVIDEO Input (Mini-DIN)
+
+The RF Tuner Input is the input to the tuner module of the
+card. The Tuner is otherwise known as the "Frontend" . The
+Frontend of the Avermedia DVB-T is a Microtune 7202D. A timely
+post to the linux-dvb mailing list ascertained that the
+Microtune 7202D is supported by the sp887x driver which is
+found in the dvb-hw CVS module.
+
+The DVB-T card is based around the BT878 chip which is a very
+common multimedia bridge and often found on Analogue TV cards.
+There is no on-board MPEG2 decoder, which means that all MPEG2
+decoding must be done in software, or if you have one, on an
+MPEG2 hardware decoding card or chipset.
+
+
+Getting the card going
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+At this stage, it has not been able to ascertain the
+functionality of the remaining device nodes in respect of the
+Avermedia DVBT. However, full functionality in respect of
+tuning, receiving and supplying the MPEG2 data stream is
+possible with the currently available versions of the driver.
+It may be possible that additional functionality is available
+from the card (i.e. viewing the additional analogue inputs
+that the card presents), but this has not been tested yet. If
+I get around to this, I'll update the document with whatever I
+find.
+
+To power up the card, load the following modules in the
+following order:
+
+* 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
+to start accessing the card with utilities such as scan, tzap,
+dvbstream etc.
+
+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 or /lib/firmware/
+(depending on configuration of firmware hotplug).
+
+Known Limitations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+At present I can say with confidence that the frontend tunes
+via /dev/dvb/adapter{x}/frontend0 and supplies an MPEG2 stream
+via /dev/dvb/adapter{x}/dvr0. I have not tested the
+functionality of any other part of the card yet. I will do so
+over time and update this document.
+
+There are some limitations in the i2c layer due to a returned
+error message inconsistency. Although this generates errors in
+dmesg and the system logs, it does not appear to affect the
+ability of the frontend to function correctly.
+
+Further Update
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+dvbstream and VideoLAN Client on windows works a treat with
+DVB, in fact this is currently serving as my main way of
+viewing DVB-T at the moment. Additionally, VLC is happily
+decoding HDTV signals, although the PC is dropping the odd
+frame here and there - I assume due to processing capability -
+as all the decoding is being done under windows in software.
+
+Many thanks to Nigel Pearson for the updates to this document
+since the recent revision of the driver.