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+.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
+.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
+.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
+.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
+.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _dvb_video:
+
+#######################
+Digital TV Video Device
+#######################
+
+The Digital TV video device controls the MPEG2 video decoder of the Digital
+TV hardware. It can be accessed through **/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0**. Data
+types and and ioctl definitions can be accessed by including
+**linux/dvb/video.h** in your application.
+
+Note that the Digital TV video device only controls decoding of the MPEG video
+stream, not its presentation on the TV or computer screen. On PCs this
+is typically handled by an associated video4linux device, e.g.
+**/dev/video**, which allows scaling and defining output windows.
+
+Some Digital TV cards don’t have their own MPEG decoder, which results in the
+omission of the audio and video device as well as the video4linux
+device.
+
+The ioctls that deal with SPUs (sub picture units) and navigation
+packets are only supported on some MPEG decoders made for DVD playback.
+
+These ioctls were also used by V4L2 to control MPEG decoders implemented
+in V4L2. The use of these ioctls for that purpose has been made obsolete
+and proper V4L2 ioctls or controls have been created to replace that
+functionality.
+
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 1
+
+    video_types
+    video_function_calls