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1The README file from the original package from Micronas appears below. Only
2the part about the firmware redistribution in section 0 is relevant, all
3other sections are completely obsolete.
4
5---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6 WIS GO7007SB Public Linux Driver
7---------------------------------------------------------------------------
8
9
10*** Please see the file RELEASE-NOTES for important last-minute updates ***
11
12
13 0. OVERVIEW AND LICENSING/DISCLAIMER
14
15
16This driver kit contains Linux drivers for the WIS GO7007SB multi-format
17video encoder. Only kernel version 2.6.x is supported. The video stream
18is available through the Video4Linux2 API and the audio stream is available
19through the ALSA API (or the OSS emulation layer of the ALSA system).
20
21The files in kernel/ and hotplug/ are licensed under the GNU General Public
22License Version 2 from the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license
23is included in the file COPYING.
24
25The example applications in apps/ and C header files in include/ are
26licensed under a permissive license included in the source files which
27allows copying, modification and redistribution for any purpose without
28attribution.
29
30The firmware files included in the firmware/ directory may be freely
31redistributed only in conjunction with this document; but modification,
32tampering and reverse engineering are prohibited.
33
34MICRONAS USA, INC., MAKES NO WARRANTIES TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WITH
35RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE OR ANY DERIVATIVES THEREOF OR ANY SERVICES OR
36LICENSES AND DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
37WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SUPPORT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
38PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
39
40
41 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
42
43
44This driver requires Linux kernel 2.6. Kernel 2.4 is not supported. Using
45kernel 2.6.10 or later is recommended, as earlier kernels are known to have
46unstable USB 2.0 support.
47
48A fully built kernel source tree must be available. Typically this will be
49linked from "/lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/build" for convenience. If this
50link does not exist, an extra parameter will need to be passed to the
51`make` command.
52
53All vendor-built kernels should already be configured properly. However,
54for custom-built kernels, the following options need to be enabled in the
55kernel as built-in or modules:
56
57 CONFIG_HOTPLUG - Support for hot-pluggable devices
58 CONFIG_MODULES - Enable loadable module support
59 CONFIG_KMOD - Automatic kernel module loading
60 CONFIG_FW_LOADER - Hotplug firmware loading support
61 CONFIG_I2C - I2C support
62 CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV - Video For Linux
63 CONFIG_SOUND - Sound card support
64 CONFIG_SND - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
65 CONFIG_USB - Support for Host-side USB
66 CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS - USB device filesystem
67 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD - EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support
68
69Additionally, to use the example application, the following options need to
70be enabled in the ALSA section:
71
72 CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS - OSS Mixer API
73 CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS - OSS PCM (digital audio) API
74
75The hotplug scripts, along with the fxload utility, must also be installed.
76These scripts can be obtained from <http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/>.
77Hotplugging is used for loading firmware into the Cypruss EZ-USB chip using
78fxload and for loading firmware into the driver using the firmware agent.
79
80
81 2. COMPILING AND INSTALLING THE DRIVER
82
83
84Most users should be able to compile the driver by simply running:
85
86 $ make
87
88in the top-level directory of the driver kit. First the kernel modules
89will be built, followed by the example applications.
90
91If the build system is unable to locate the kernel source tree for the
92currently-running kernel, or if the module should be built for a kernel
93other than the currently-running kernel, an additional parameter will need
94to be passed to make to specify the appropriate kernel source directory:
95
96 $ make KERNELSRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-custom3
97
98Once the compile completes, the driver and firmware files should be
99installed by running:
100
101 $ make install
102
103The kernel modules will be placed in "/lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/extra"
104and the firmware files will be placed in the appropriate hotplug firmware
105directory, usually /lib/firmware. In addition, USB maps and scripts will
106be placed in /etc/hotplug/usb to enable fxload to initialize the EZ-USB
107control chip when the device is connected.
108
109
110 3. PAL/SECAM TUNER CONFIGURATION (TV402U-EU only)
111
112
113The PAL model of the Plextor ConvertX TV402U may require additional
114configuration to correctly select the appropriate TV frequency band and
115audio subchannel.
116
117Users with a device other than the Plextor ConvertX TV402U-EU should skip
118this section.
119
120The wide variety of PAL TV systems used in Europe requires that additional
121information about the local TV standards be passed to the driver in order
122to properly tune TV channels. The two necessary parameters are (a) the PAL
123TV band, and (b) the audio subchannel format in use.
124
125In many cases, the appropriate TV band selection is passed to the driver
126from applications. However, in some cases, the application only specifies
127that the driver should use PAL but not the specific information about the
128appropriate TV band. To work around this issue, the correct TV band may be
129specified in the "force_band" parameter to the wis-sony-tuner module:
130
131 TV band force_band
132 ------- ----------
133 PAL B/G B
134 PAL I I
135 PAL D/K D
136 SECAM L L
137
138If the "force_band" parameter is specified, the driver will ignore any TV
139band specified by applications and will always use the band provided in the
140module parameter.
141
142The other parameter that can be specified is the audio subchannel format.
143There are several stereo audio carrier systems in use, including NICAM and
144three varieties of A2. To receive audio broadcast on one of these stereo
145carriers, the "force_mpx_mode" parameter must be specified to the
146wis-sony-tuner module.
147
148 TV band Audio subcarrier force_mpx_mode
149 ------- ---------------- --------------
150 PAL B/G Mono (default) 1
151 PAL B/G A2 2
152 PAL B/G NICAM 3
153 PAL I Mono (default) 4
154 PAL I NICAM 5
155 PAL D/K Mono (default) 6
156 PAL D/K A2 (1) 7
157 PAL D/K A2 (2) 8
158 PAL D/K A2 (3) 9
159 PAL D/K NICAM 10
160 SECAM L Mono (default) 11
161 SECAM L NICAM 12
162
163If the "force_mpx_mode" parameter is not specified, the correct mono-only
164mode will be chosen based on the TV band. However, the tuner will not
165receive stereo audio or bilingual broadcasts correctly.
166
167To pass the "force_band" or "force_mpx_mode" parameters to the
168wis-sony-tuner module, the following line must be added to the modprobe
169configuration file, which varies from one Linux distribution to another.
170
171 options wis-sony-tuner force_band=B force_mpx_mode=2
172
173The above example would force the tuner to the PAL B/G TV band and receive
174stereo audio broadcasts on the A2 carrier.
175
176To verify that the configuration has been placed in the correct location,
177execute:
178
179 $ modprobe -c | grep wis-sony-tuner
180
181If the configuration line appears, then modprobe will pass the parameters
182correctly the next time the wis-sony-tuner module is loaded into the
183kernel.
184
185
186 4. TESTING THE DRIVER
187
188
189Because few Linux applications are able to correctly capture from
190Video4Linux2 devices with only compressed formats supported, the new driver
191should be tested with the "gorecord" application in the apps/ directory.
192
193First connect a video source to the device, such as a DVD player or VCR.
194This will be captured to a file for testing the driver. If an input source
195is unavailable, a test file can still be captured, but the video will be
196black and the audio will be silent.
197
198This application will auto-detect the V4L2 and ALSA/OSS device names of the
199hardware and will record video and audio to an AVI file for a specified
200number of seconds. For example:
201
202 $ apps/gorecord -duration 60 capture.avi
203
204If this application does not successfully record an AVI file, the error
205messages produced by gorecord and recorded in the system log (usually in
206/var/log/messages) should provide information to help resolve the problem.
207
208Supplying no parameters to gorecord will cause it to probe the available
209devices and exit. Use the -help flag for usage information.
210
211
212 5. USING THE DRIVER
213
214
215The V4L2 device implemented by the driver provides a standard compressed
216format API, within the following criteria:
217
218 * Applications that only support the original Video4Linux1 API will not
219 be able to communicate with this driver at all.
220
221 * No raw video modes are supported, so applications like xawtv that
222 expect only uncompressed video will not function.
223
224 * Supported compression formats are: Motion-JPEG, MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4.
225
226 * MPEG video formats are delivered as Video Elementary Streams only.
227 Program Stream (PS), Transport Stream (TS) and Packetized Elementary
228 Stream (PES) formats are not supported.
229
230 * Video parameters such as format and input port may not be changed while
231 the encoder is active.
232
233 * The audio capture device only functions when the video encoder is
234 actively capturing video. Attempts to read from the audio device when
235 the encoder is inactive will result in an I/O error.
236
237 * The native format of the audio device is 48Khz 2-channel 16-bit
238 little-endian PCM, delivered through the ALSA system. No audio
239 compression is implemented in the hardware. ALSA may convert to other
240 uncompressed formats on the fly.
241
242The include/ directory contains a C header file describing non-standard
243features of the GO7007SB encoder, which are described below:
244
245
246 GO7007IOC_S_COMP_PARAMS, GO7007IOC_G_COMP_PARAMS
247
248 These ioctls are used to negotiate general compression parameters.
249
250 To query the current parameters, call the GO7007IOC_G_COMP_PARAMS ioctl
251 with a pointer to a struct go7007_comp_params. If the driver is not
252 set to MPEG format, the EINVAL error code will be returned.
253
254 To change the current parameters, initialize all fields of a struct
255 go7007_comp_params and call the GO7007_IOC_S_COMP_PARAMS ioctl with a
256 pointer to this structure. The driver will return the current
257 parameters with any necessary changes to conform to the limitations of
258 the hardware or current compression mode. Any or all fields can be set
259 to zero to request a reasonable default value. If the driver is not
260 set to MPEG format, the EINVAL error code will be returned. When I/O
261 is in progress, the EBUSY error code will be returned.
262
263 Fields in struct go7007_comp_params:
264
265 __u32 The maximum number of frames in each
266 gop_size Group Of Pictures; i.e. the maximum
267 number of frames minus one between
268 each key frame.
269
270 __u32 The maximum number of sequential
271 max_b_frames bidirectionally-predicted frames.
272 (B-frames are not yet supported.)
273
274 enum go7007_aspect_ratio The aspect ratio to be encoded in the
275 aspect_ratio meta-data of the compressed format.
276
277 Choices are:
278 GO7007_ASPECT_RATIO_1_1
279 GO7007_ASPECT_RATIO_4_3_NTSC
280 GO7007_ASPECT_RATIO_4_3_PAL
281 GO7007_ASPECT_RATIO_16_9_NTSC
282 GO7007_ASPECT_RATIO_16_9_PAL
283
284 __u32 Bit-wise OR of control flags (below)
285 flags
286
287 Flags in struct go7007_comp_params:
288
289 GO7007_COMP_CLOSED_GOP Only produce self-contained GOPs, used
290 to produce streams appropriate for
291 random seeking.
292
293 GO7007_COMP_OMIT_SEQ_HEADER Omit the stream sequence header.
294
295
296 GO7007IOC_S_MPEG_PARAMS, GO7007IOC_G_MPEG_PARAMS
297
298 These ioctls are used to negotiate MPEG-specific stream parameters when
299 the pixelformat has been set to V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG.
300
301 To query the current parameters, call the GO7007IOC_G_MPEG_PARAMS ioctl
302 with a pointer to a struct go7007_mpeg_params. If the driver is not
303 set to MPEG format, the EINVAL error code will be returned.
304
305 To change the current parameters, initialize all fields of a struct
306 go7007_mpeg_params and call the GO7007_IOC_S_MPEG_PARAMS ioctl with a
307 pointer to this structure. The driver will return the current
308 parameters with any necessary changes to conform to the limitations of
309 the hardware or selected MPEG mode. Any or all fields can be set to
310 zero to request a reasonable default value. If the driver is not set
311 to MPEG format, the EINVAL error code will be returned. When I/O is in
312 progress, the EBUSY error code will be returned.
313
314 Fields in struct go7007_mpeg_params:
315
316 enum go7007_mpeg_video_standard
317 mpeg_video_standard The MPEG video standard in which to
318 compress the video.
319
320 Choices are:
321 GO7007_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG1
322 GO7007_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG2
323 GO7007_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4
324
325 __u32 Bit-wise OR of control flags (below)
326 flags
327
328 __u32 The profile and level indication to be
329 pali stored in the sequence header. This
330 is only used as an indicator to the
331 decoder, and does not affect the MPEG
332 features used in the video stream.
333 Not valid for MPEG1.
334
335 Choices for MPEG2 are:
336 GO7007_MPEG2_PROFILE_MAIN_MAIN
337
338 Choices for MPEG4 are:
339 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_S_L0
340 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_S_L1
341 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_S_L2
342 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_S_L3
343 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_ARTS_L1
344 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_ARTS_L2
345 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_ARTS_L3
346 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_ARTS_L4
347 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_AS_L0
348 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_AS_L1
349 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_AS_L2
350 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_AS_L3
351 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_AS_L4
352 GO7007_MPEG4_PROFILE_AS_L5
353
354 Flags in struct go7007_mpeg_params:
355
356 GO7007_MPEG_FORCE_DVD_MODE Force all compression parameters and
357 bitrate control settings to comply
358 with DVD MPEG2 stream requirements.
359 This overrides most compression and
360 bitrate settings!
361
362 GO7007_MPEG_OMIT_GOP_HEADER Omit the GOP header.
363
364 GO7007_MPEG_REPEAT_SEQHEADER Repeat the MPEG sequence header at
365 the start of each GOP.
366
367
368 GO7007IOC_S_BITRATE, GO7007IOC_G_BITRATE
369
370 These ioctls are used to set and query the target bitrate value for the
371 compressed video stream. The bitrate may be selected by storing the
372 target bits per second in an int and calling GO7007IOC_S_BITRATE with a
373 pointer to the int. The bitrate may be queried by calling
374 GO7007IOC_G_BITRATE with a pointer to an int where the current bitrate
375 will be stored.
376
377 Note that this is the primary means of controlling the video quality
378 for all compression modes, including V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG. The
379 VIDIOC_S_JPEGCOMP ioctl is not supported.
380
381
382----------------------------------------------------------------------------
383 Installing the WIS PCI Voyager Driver
384---------------------------------------------------------------------------
385
386The WIS PCI Voyager driver requires several patches to the Linux 2.6.11.x
387kernel source tree before compiling the driver. These patches update the
388in-kernel SAA7134 driver to the newest development version and patch bugs
389in the TDA8290/TDA8275 tuner driver.
390
391The following patches must be downloaded from Gerd Knorr's website and
392applied in the order listed:
393
394 http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.11-2/i2c-tuner
395 http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.11-2/i2c-tuner2
396 http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.11-2/v4l2-api-mpeg
397 http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.11-2/saa7134-update
398
399The following patches are included with this SDK and can be applied in any
400order:
401
402 patches/2.6.11/saa7134-voyager.diff
403 patches/2.6.11/tda8275-newaddr.diff
404 patches/2.6.11/tda8290-ntsc.diff
405
406Check to make sure the CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134 option is enabled in the kernel
407configuration, and build and install the kernel.
408
409After rebooting into the new kernel, the GO7007 driver can be compiled and
410installed:
411
412 $ make SAA7134_BUILD=y
413 $ make install
414 $ modprobe saa7134-go7007
415
416There will be two V4L video devices associated with the PCI Voyager. The
417first device (most likely /dev/video0) provides access to the raw video
418capture mode of the SAA7133 device and is used to configure the source
419video parameters and tune the TV tuner. This device can be used with xawtv
420or other V4L(2) video software as a standard uncompressed device.
421
422The second device (most likely /dev/video1) provides access to the
423compression functions of the GO7007. It can be tested using the gorecord
424application in the apps/ directory of this SDK:
425
426 $ apps/gorecord -vdevice /dev/video1 -noaudio test.avi
427
428Currently the frame resolution is fixed at 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL),
429and the video standard must be specified to both the raw and the compressed
430video devices (xawtv and gorecord, for example).
431
432
433--------------------------------------------------------------------------
434RELEASE NOTES FOR WIS GO7007SB LINUX DRIVER
435---------------------------------------------------------------------------
436
437Last updated: 5 November 2005
438
439 - Release 0.9.7 includes new support for using udev to run fxload. The
440 install script should automatically detect whether the old hotplug
441 scripts or the new udev rules should be used. To force the use of
442 hotplug, run "make install USE_UDEV=n". To force the use of udev, run
443 "make install USE_UDEV=y".
444
445 - Motion detection is supported but undocumented. Try the `modet` app
446 for a demonstration of how to use the facility.
447
448 - Using USB2.0 devices such as the TV402U with USB1.1 HCDs or hubs can
449 cause buffer overruns and frame drops, even at low framerates, due to
450 inconsistency in the bitrate control mechanism.
451
452 - On devices with an SAA7115, including the Plextor ConvertX, video height
453 values of 96, 128, 160, 192, 256, 320, and 384 do not work in NTSC mode.
454 All valid heights up to 512 work correctly in PAL mode.
455
456 - The WIS Star Trek and PCI Voyager boards have no support yet for audio
457 or the TV tuner.
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