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diff --git a/doc/README.dvb b/doc/README.dvb index b54f4366a..2c9825ce5 100644 --- a/doc/README.dvb +++ b/doc/README.dvb @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ cards should be supported (e.g. the Hauppauge WinTV Nova DVB-S card). driver download and installation -------------------------------- -Download and install the drivers from http://www.linuxtv.org, the 1.0.0 release +Download and install the drivers from http://www.linuxtv.org, the 1.0.0 or later release should work fine. You will need kernel sources configured for your configuration for @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ if that doesn't fail, do a # make insmod +UPDATE: the latest 2.6 kernels include the necessary drivers for most + cards, check on the linuxtv.org website for information about supported + cards, or read the documentation available in the linux kernel + sources (linux/Documentation/dvb/*). + to load the generated modules into your running kernel. If everything went fine, you should have something like @@ -46,10 +51,18 @@ dvb equipment. xine now uses the channels.conf format of szap, czap and tzap as appropriate for DVB-S, DVB-C and DVB-T. it will search the channel list file in ~/.xine/channels.conf -channel list format for DVB-S: +channel list format for DVB-S: (satellite) +------------------------------------------- +NBC :11053 :h :1 :27500 :550 :551 :1 :8008 +station name:freqency:h/v:sat no :symbol rate:vpid:apid:sid:???? +------------------------------------------- -NBC :11053 :h :1 :27500 :550 :551 :1:8008 -station name:freqency:h/v:sat no :symbol rate:vpid:apid:?:???? +channel list format for DVB-T (terrestrial): +------------------------------------------- +WINSA :557500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64: \ + TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE :33 :36 :1 +station name:frequency:config options go on seemingly forever ... :vpid:apid:serviceid +------------------------------------------- you automatically scan for all available channels using the scan utility which comes with the dvb package. compile it using something like @@ -59,14 +72,25 @@ which comes with the dvb package. compile it using something like then start scanning -# scan >channels.conf +# scan >~/.xine/channels.conf + +newer versions of scan (after July 2004) are called dvbscan, but you can use it much the same way: + +# dvbscan Hotbird-13.0 >~/.xine/channels.conf this can take a while. in a DiSEqC environment, use the -s N switch to select -different sattelites to scan and paste the results in one big channels.conf file. +different sattelites to scan and paste the results in one big channels.conf file. As always, +please be sure to read the man page for the version of the tool you are using. + +HINT 1: you might want to manually sort the channels.conf file to have your favourite + channels at the top and maybe remove scrambled channels which you don't have access to. -HINT: you might want to manually sort the channels.conf file to have your favourite -channels at the top and maybe remove scrambled channels which you don't have access to. + ************************ If the dvb plugin doesn't seem to work for you ****************** +* if xine doesn't seem to work for you, double check to make sure that the channels.conf * +* file is _NOT_ in vdr format, which looks something like this: * +* WINSA:557500:I999B7C23D0M64T8G8Y0:T:27500:33:36:47:0:1:0:0:0 * + ****************************************************************************************** using xine to watch digital television -------------------------------------- |