The dvb standard (digital video broadcasting) is an integrated package of standards for the distribution of terrestrial (dvb-t), satellite (dvb-s) and cable (dvb-c) digital television.

this library offers an abstraction layer over the linux dvb kernel drivers to tune and command dvb cards that are connected to the system. common uses include scanning transponders, selecting channels and retrieving raw mpeg-2 transport streams (ts).

this package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications or shared objects that use libdvb.