Commit d9d43617 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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media: admin-guide: Add an introduction chapter 



The media's admin guide is currently just a group of
not-connected docs.

Add an introduction chapter for it to start making sense
to a random reader.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst

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Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0



============

Introduction

============



The media subsystem consists on Linux support for several different types

of devices:



- Audio and video grabbers;

- PC and Laptop Cameras;

- Complex cameras found on Embedded hardware;

- Analog and digital TV;

- HDMI Customer Electronics Control (CEC);

- Multi-touch input devices;

- Remote Controllers;

- Media encoders and decoders.



Due to the diversity of devices, the subsystem provides several different

APIs:



- Remote Controller API;

- HDMI CEC API;

- Video4Linux API;

- Media controller API;

- Video4Linux Request API (experimental);

- Digital TV API (also known as DVB API).