libzvbi - VBI capture and decoding library

  Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Michael H. Schimek
  Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Iñaki García Etxebarria
  Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007 Tom Zoerner

  Originally based on AleVT 1.5.1 by Edgar Toernig

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  file COPYING.LIB for more details.

  Software in this package which is not part of the library,
  including code generators, programs in the test and contrib
  directories, and the VBI proxy daemon, are licensed under the
  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
  Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING
  for more details.

  Programs in the examples directory are licensed under a 2-clause
  BSD-style license. See the respective source files for details.

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  Introduction
  ============

  The vertical blanking interval (VBI) is an interval in an analog
  television signal that temporarily suspends transmission of the
  signal for the electron gun to move back up to the first line of the
  television screen to trace the next screen field. The vertical
  blanking interval can be used to carry data, since anything sent
  during the VBI would naturally not be displayed; various test
  signals, closed captioning, and other digital data can be sent
  during this time period.

  The ZVBI library provides functions to read from Linux V4L, V4L2 and
  FreeBSD BKTR raw VBI capture devices, from Linux DVB devices and
  from a VBI proxy to share V4L and V4L2 VBI devices between multiple
  applications.

  It can demodulate raw to sliced VBI data in software, with support
  for a wide range of formats, has functions to decode several popular
  services including Teletext and Closed Caption, a Teletext cache
  with search function, various text export and rendering functions.

  Basically ZVBI offers all functions needed by VBI applications
  except for the user interface. The library was written for the
  Zapping TV viewer http://zapping.sourceforge.net.

  For details on using the library see the documentation in doc/html
  (built only if you have Doxygen http://www.doxygen.org/ installed)
  and the files in the test and examples directories.


  Bindings
  ========

  Tom Zoerner wrote a Perl interface to libzvbi. The ZVBI Perl module
  covers all exported libzvbi functions. Most of the functions and
  parameters are exposed nearly identical, or with minor adaptions for
  the Perl idiom.

  Find out more at  http://search.cpan.org/~TOMZO/Video-ZVBI


  Download
  ========

  The latest version is available from  http://zapping.sourceforge.net
  as a tarball and publicly readable CVS.

  Christian Marillat maintains a Debian package:
    http://packages.debian.org/source/zvbi

  Oliver Lehmann maintains a FreeBSD port:
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=libzvbi

  For RPMs please see the repository of your distribution.

  Sourceforge and Freshmeat can notify you about new releases by e-mail:
    http://sourceforge.net/project/filemodule_monitor.php?filemodule_id=41356
    http://freshmeat.net/subscribe/?url=%2Fprojects%2Flibzvbi%2F


  Installation
  ============

  If you checked out the sources from CVS, run "./autogen.sh" to create
  missing configuration and make files.

  To build and install type "./configure", "make", "make check" if you
  want to run some tests, and "make install".

  For additional instructions see the INSTALL file.

  The library has been tested on Linux and FreeBSD.


  Questions, comments, concerns, complaints, irritations, aggravations,
  insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternations
  ======================================================================

  * You can post patches, feature requests and bug reports at
    our Sourceforge tracker:
      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2599

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      #zapping at irc.freenode.net

  Primary author and maintainer of this library is

    Michael H. Schimek <[email protected]>

  Encrypted e-mail is welcome. You can find my PGP/GPG key in the
  AUTHORS file, e.g. type "gpg --import <AUTHORS". Ich spreche deutsch.