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Very old hardware may have an analog stage tuner. Those hardware consists of a PLL that converts a RF signal into IF signals. Depending on the hardware, those video IF signal can be decoded directly by the bridge chipset. Most Conexant chips (bt8x8, cx2388x, etc) have internally the decoders for that. Yet, even on such hardware, the tuner may have internally its own TV multi-standard decoder like tda9887. The same happens with the audio IF signal, where some bridges are capable of receiving it, while others require an external IF-PLL sound decoder, like msp3400. Those external IF-PLL audio and video decoders have their own I2C address, and use different drivers to handle them. So, they're mapped as different subdevices on Linux. Thankfully, all modern hardware comes with an IC chip that has both the RF and the IF stages on it, being capable of decoding audio and video IF signals internally. Yet, as we need to support drivers that can work with either analog or silicon tuners, we need to add two entity types for those old hardware. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> |
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