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+.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
+.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
+.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
+.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
+.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _DMX_SET_PES_FILTER:
+
+==================
+DMX_SET_PES_FILTER
+==================
+
+Name
+----
+
+DMX_SET_PES_FILTER
+
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, DMX_SET_PES_FILTER, struct dmx_pes_filter_params *params)
+ :name: DMX_SET_PES_FILTER
+
+
+Arguments
+---------
+
+
+``fd``
+ File descriptor returned by :c:func:`open() <dvb-dmx-open>`.
+
+``params``
+ Pointer to structure containing filter parameters.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This ioctl call sets up a PES filter according to the parameters
+provided. By a PES filter is meant a filter that is based just on the
+packet identifier (PID), i.e. no PES header or payload filtering
+capability is supported.
+
+
+Return Value
+------------
+
+On success 0 is returned.
+
+On error -1 is returned, and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately.
+
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{2.5cm}|p{15.0cm}|
+
+.. flat-table::
+ :header-rows: 0
+ :stub-columns: 0
+ :widths: 1 16
+
+
+ - .. row 1
+
+ - ``EBUSY``
+
+ - This error code indicates that there are conflicting requests.
+ There are active filters filtering data from another input source.
+ Make sure that these filters are stopped before starting this
+ filter.
+
+
+The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.