Dave N wrote:
Dave N wrote, on 02/08/2011 07:18:
The Natural Philosopher wrote, on 01/08/2011 20:37:
Mark Williams wrote:
The Natural Philosopher writes:

For those of you who run TV cards on Linux in the UK..and are having
trouble retuning using 'scan' because the transmitter files that come
with the standard distros of dvb utilities don't work any more, here
is the way to sort out how to patch them

[...]

Hope this helps anyone else struggling to retune - several times - in
the mass switchover being undertaken this year.

Or use `w_scan' (URL:http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/w_scan/index2.html),
thus avoiding the need for the initial tuning files?

If I read German, I might...

Unfortunately you seem to have missed the link to English text, shown in
large letters at the top of the quoted URL page. The download link and
changelog are only available on the German page as is explained by the
English text, however, but they are obvious.

The given examples make this utility seem potentially very helpful, but
requires compilation from source code. I haven't used it myself so I
cannot comment on its effectiveness.


There is a guide (English on Ubuntu) to w_scan he-

http://edafe.org/vdr/w_scan/

Apparently I was wrong and the tarball includes a precompiled binary.
There is a comparison of scanning utilities on LinuxTV Wiki:-

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequency_scan#Comparison_of_DVB_frequency_scannin g_commandline_utilities


As I said, it doesn't seem to be able to cope with the current mess that
represents all the offset channels.

To be frank,. neither did the wife's MAC OSX software (eye-TV) had to
manually tune that to the offset frequencies..and a weird bug has turned
up in the STB's as well. radio stations cut out after a few seconds..
and the screen displays channel info but no sound. Had to set it in
'menu' mode to listen to Test match special. That stops it doing that..

Sigh. I guess the software will catch up, eventually.